Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind the lyrics. Like so many ... the verse drops out of use in “The Star-Spangled Banner.” O thus be it ever when freemen shall ...

The Star-Spangled Banner” is played at sports games, school events, and military ceremonies, but do you know the meaning of our national anthem? The song’s centuries-old history makes it worth ...

The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States. But where do the lyrics come from, and what’s the history of the anthem? ‘Oh, say can you see...’, goes ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ ...

“I remember people literally tearing their hair out,” said Woodstock ... reflects the content of the lyrics. Hendrix brought the words of “The Star-Spangled Banner” to life by reflecting ...

He immediately began penning the first verse to the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Key set his lyrics to the then popular tune of the “Anacreontic Song,” the song of an 18th-century gentlemen’s ...

But it all begins with the performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The Super Bowl National Anthem is a great American tradition that has been carried out by some of the greatest voices in ...

Susan Biddle / The Washington Post / Getty Images The Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the lyrics to our national anthem in 1814—its appearance above Fort ...

“I remember people literally tearing their hair out,” said Woodstock ... reflects the content of the lyrics. Hendrix brought the words of “The Star-Spangled Banner” to life by reflecting ...