Fascinating facts about Francis Scott Key, the writing of what would become America's national anthem, and the War of 1812 ...

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When we became allies with them in WWII, the verse drops out of use in “The Star-Spangled Banner.” O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand There is some contention over the word usage here.

Jimi Hendrix’s Star-Spangled Banner brought the sounds of Vietnam to the crowd at Woodstock. But he wasn’t the only musician to reimagine the national anthem during a time of war.

How did ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ become the national anthem? Key set his lyrics to the then popular tune of the “ Anacreontic Song ,” the song of an 18th-century gentlemen’s club in London.

When we became allies with them in WWII, the verse drops out of use in “The Star-Spangled Banner.” O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand There is some contention over the word usage here.

Jimi Hendrix’s Star-Spangled Banner brought the sounds of Vietnam to the crowd at Woodstock. But he wasn’t the only musician to reimagine the national anthem during a time of war.