{| |- | Francis Scott Key wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner. He did not write the music. The melody came from an old drinking song. |}
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"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing", also known as the black national anthem, was first performed in public in 1900. That was long after the words for the Star Spangled Banner were written in 1814 and set to music later in that same year. "The Star Spangled Banner" became the national anthem in 1931, but had been used as such since 1889 or earlier.
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The words to the Star Spangled Banner were written by Francis Scott Key. The tune comes from an old English drinking song.
Francis Scott Key penned the words to our national anthem while watching the British naval attack on Baltimore's Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. Key turned them into a poem, "The Defense of Fort McHenry." which he published in 1814.It was Key's brother-in-law, Judge Joseph H. Nicholson, who married the poem's words to the the tune of a popular English drinking song to produce "The Star Spangled Banner." The English drinking song was written in 1780 by John Stafford Smith.Fittingly, it was the US Navy that was the first arm of the United States to adopt the song as its own, in 1869. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson began to use it for official government business, and in 1931 President Herbert Hoover signed into law the resolution by which "The Star Spangled Banner" became the national anthem of the United States.francis Scott keyThe Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key. His inspiration came from a battle with the British in the War of 1812.Francis Scott Key
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Assuming it is a triangular banner with 50 stars going around the words, "no R's allowed," then it symbolizes the Star Spangled Banner. It is "Star Spangled" because it has 50 stars going around the words. It is a banner because, (1) it literally is a triangular banner, and (2) the R's are aren't allowed, hence banner.
The song used to put the words for The Star Spangled Banner into its own song is "To Anacreon in Heaven. The tune was originally composed by John Staffford Smith.
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Francis Scott Key wrote the words to The Star-Spangled Banner, originally titled The Defense of Fort McHenry, the morning of September 14, 1814, after the British attack on Fort McHenry, Maryland.
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing", also known as the black national anthem, was first performed in public in 1900. That was long after the words for the Star Spangled Banner were written in 1814 and set to music later in that same year. "The Star Spangled Banner" became the national anthem in 1931, but had been used as such since 1889 or earlier.
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