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Music, lyrics and customs". Royal House of the Netherlands. 24 February 2015 . Retrieved 6 July 2020. Wie die deutsche Nationalhymne nach feucht-fröhlicher Runde entstand" by Claus-Stephan Rehfeld, Deutschlandfunk, 26 August 2016 National Symbols and Anthem of the Republic of Serbia". Government of the Republic of Serbia. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013 . Retrieved 7 July 2020.

a b Originally adopted by Czechoslovakia as a part of its hymn in 1918 (together with Slovak "Nad Tatrou sa blýska"), and latter in 1993 by the Czech Republic (already without the Slovak part). The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. " To Anacreon in Heaven" (or "The Anacreontic Song"), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States. This setting, renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner", soon became a well-known U.S. patriotic song. With a range of 19 semitones, it is known for being very difficult to sing. Although the poem has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today.Offering a watery way to enter the state, home too to Akron, the city Chrissie Hynde sang about on the Pretenders' 'My City was Gone'. Hong Kong protesters sing U.S. anthem in appeal for Trump's help". NBC News. Archived from the original on September 10, 2019 . Retrieved December 6, 2019. DeRocco, David (2008). From sea to sea to sea: a newcomer's guide to Canada. Full Blast Productions. pp.121–122. ISBN 978-0-9784738-4-6. The National Symbols of the Republic of Azerbaijan". Heydar Aliyev Foundation . Retrieved 23 January 2015.

Also known as "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" ("Unity and justice and freedom"); only the third stanza of the song is the official national anthem. Century-old Francis Scott Key monument defaced with 'racist anthem' in Baltimore". Washington Examiner . Retrieved April 8, 2022.Written around 1775 by John Stafford Smith, the song honored the ancient Greek poet Anacreon, a lover of wine. It was originally performed at a London gentleman’s music club called the Anacreontic Society. Though his celebrated anthem proclaimed the United States “the land of the free,” Key was in fact a slaveholder from an old Maryland plantation family, and as a U.S. attorney argued several prominent cases against the abolitionist movement. He did speak out against the cruelties of the institution of slavery, but did not see abolition as the solution. An 1844 version, “Oh, Say Do You Hear,” with lyrics by E.A. Atlee was written for the abolitionist cause. Its first stanza is as follows: Oh, say do you hear, at the dawn’s early light, Grammy winner Jennifer Nettles surprises a cancer foundation founder with an anthem about his life.

Successfully covered by Deep Purple a year later, as their second single, proving that a good song can be recorded in any style. Botting, Gary Norman Arthur (1993). Fundamental freedoms and Jehovah's Witnesses. University of Calgary Press. p.27. ISBN 978-1-895176-06-3 . Retrieved December 13, 2009. Smoltczyk, Alexander (24 April 2014). "Hopes Rise in Transnistria of a Russian Annexation". Der Spiegel . Retrieved 25 November 2018.As a result of immigration to the United States and the incorporation of non-English-speaking people into the country, the lyrics of the song have been translated into other languages. In 1861, it was translated into German. [93] The Library of Congress also has record of a Spanish-language version from 1919. [94] It has since been translated into Hebrew [95] and Yiddish by Jewish immigrants, [96] Latin American Spanish (with one version popularized during immigration reform protests in 2006), [97] French by Acadians of Louisiana, [98] Samoan, [99] and Irish. [100] The third verse of the anthem has also been translated into Latin. [101] Ironically, the melody Key assigned to accompany the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was a popular English drinking song called “To Anacreon in Heaven.” What are the world's oldest national anthems?". NationalAnthems.me. Archived from the original on 22 December 2011 . Retrieved 14 August 2011. a b Delaplaine, Edward S. Francis Scott Key: Life and Times (1937) Reprinted by American Foundation Publications, Stuarts Draft, Virginia. 1998 (p. 154)