![]() (Sometimes Uncle John gets nostalgic for his youth.) But the title of the song about a battle with England comes straight out of…England. “Star-Spangled Banner” is about as American a phrase as possible-it conjures images of a parade of kids in red, white, and blue carrying it in a small town parade. ![]() When he first wrote it, Key named it not “The Star-Spangled Banner” but the decidedly less catchy-if accurate-“The Defense of Fort McHenry.” At the time, Key, a diplomat, was being temporarily imprisoned on an English ship off the coast of Baltimore. ![]() While Francis Scott Key took the tune whole cloth from a 1700s drinking song called “To Anacreon in Heaven,” he wrote the lyrics after being eyewitness to the American victory at Fort McHenry, a battle during the War of 1812 against England.
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