What is US anthem?

Question

I'm curious as someone said to me yesterday that it wasn't Yankee Doodle Dandy which is what I thought it was. (maybe from some old US films?) I've heard the star spangled song played at some overseas sporting events - and wonder if that is their song??

Some who are a responding are aghast that I don't know the answer. I don't live in the US so don't know. Do those who are sceptical know what the Aus anthem is?

Hi blktiger.

Close - it is Advance Australia Fair.

Answer 1

Wow! The Star Spangled Banner is our national anthem Written By The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America, with lyrics written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key. Key, a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, wrote them as a poem after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, by British ships in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812.

The poem, entitled "The Defense of Fort McHenry," was set to the tune of the popular British drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven," and became a well-known American patriotic song. With a range of one and a half octaves, it is known for being notoriously difficult to sing. It was recognized for official use by the United States Navy (1889) and the White House (1916), and was made the national anthem by a Congressional resolution on 3 March 1931 (46 Stat. 1508, codified at 36 USC 301). Although the song has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today.



The Star-Spangled Banner

by Francis Scott Keyes


Oh say can you see,
by the dawn's early light,
what so proudly we hailed,
at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
through the perilous fight,
o’er the ramparts we watched,
were so gallantly streaming.

And the rocket's red glare,
the bombs bursting in air,
gave proof through the night,
that our flag was still there.

Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free,
and the home of the brave?

Answer 2

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
In 1931 the Congress of The United States of America enacted legislation that made "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official national anthem.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Answer 3

The Star Spangled Banner

Answer 4

The National Anthem is The Star Spangled Banner

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Answer 5

The Star Spangled Banner
written by Francis Scott Key in Sept 1814,after being detained overnight on a ship at Fort McHenry.It is actually a long poem and only the first paragraph is used for the anthem,which became the national anthem in 1931

S**T Im canadian and I know the answer

Answer 6

Yes "The Star Spangled Banner" IS the National Anthem of the US.

Unrelated Question: I THINK that "Waltzing Matilda" is the Australian National Anthem - or was it "Australia Fair"... which is correct?

Answer 7

'The Star-Spangled Banner' is our National Anthem.

Answer 8

Are you kidding? It's Star Spangled Banner. Duh.

Answer 9

please tell me your not serious???!!!