Star Spangled Facts

In March 2005 a government sponsored program was started in the USA to help the population learn the lyrics of the national anthem.

The song is known as one of the few national anthems that does not mention the name of the home country.

The lyrics can be sung to the tune of the Hymn of the Soviet Union with no modification.

Because it is the most explicitly anti-British verse (and also fairly gory), the third is virtually never sung.

The first stanza is full of questions. It is in the other stanzas that these questions are answered, although they are almost never sung.

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