Just say who wrote it.
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The Star-Spangled Banner\n\n\nIf there is anything taken more seriously than the US flag, it's possibly the national anthem. The Star-Spangled Banner accompanies just about every major American function, and at major sporting events a significant honour is bestowed on those asked to sing what is probably the best known national anthem in the world.\n\nBut, listen to the words and it tells of a moment in US history when the war with the British was being fought and of one man's relief in seeing the US flag still flying after a vicious bombardment.\n\nBefore the Battle\nThe War of 1812 had been a particularly nasty conflict with the British. They had burned down the Capitol and White House in Washington, and were set on taking the port of Baltimore, which was protected in part by Fort McHenry. After an initial land attack had been thwarted, 16 ships of the British fleet positioned themselves for a massive attack on the fort.\n\nBefore the fleet came within canon range, two Americans, Colonel John Skinner and a lawyer and part-time poet by the name of Francis Scott Key, had gone out to one of the British ships. They had come to negotiate the release of Dr William Beanes, a friend of Key who had been seized following the attack on Washington. The British agreed, but all three had learned too much about the forthcoming attack and were detained by the British on board the frigate Surprise until it was over.\n\nThe Defense of Fort McHenry\nThe attack started on September 12th, 1814, and continued for the next two days. Skinner, Beane and Key watched much of the bombardment from the deck and, through the nights of the 12th and 13th they caught glimpses of the star-shaped fort with its huge flag - 42ft long, with 8 red stripes, 7 white stripes and 15 white stars, it had been specially commissioned to be big enough that the British could not possibly fail to see it from a distance.\n\nIn the dark of the night of the 13th, the shelling suddenly stopped - through the darkness they couldn't tell whether the British forces had been defeated, or the fort had fallen.\n\nAs the sun began to rise, Key peered through the lifting darkness anxious to see if the flag they had seen the night before was still flying. And so it was that he scribbled on the back of an envelope the first lines of a poem he called Defense of Fort M'Henry:\n\nO, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,\nWhat so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming\nAs the mist started to clear he was aware that there was a flag flying - but was it the British flag? It was difficult to tell:\n\nWhat is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep,\nAs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?\nBut finally the sun rose, and with intense relief and pride he saw that the fort had withstood the onslaught ...\n\n'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.\n\n\nThe poem becomes a hymn and anthem\nOn the way back to shore, and later in his hotel room, he completed all four verses of the poem, and the following morning he took it to his brother-in-law, a local judge, who thought it so good that he arranged to have it printed as a handbill.\n\nIt is very likely that Key only ever intended this as a poem. However, there was a very popular tune of the time which had the same form and metre, and there can be no doubt that Key was heavily influenced by it - ironically, this was the tune of a British drinking song!\n\nWhen the handbills were printed, they bore the name of this tune to which the poem should be sung - Anacreon in Heaven. Nobody is sure whether this was Key's idea, or whether his brother-in-law had made the connection, but to this day the American National Anthem is sung to the tune of a British drinking song.\n\nAt one time, the English composer Dr Thomas Arnold was thought to be its composer - it was used as the constitutional song of the Anacreonic Society, a
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It would help if you post the poem or a link to the poem.
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One set of quotation marks would suffice. You just have to state your source as well as where the author quoted from.
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it depends on what your like\nit has to be original
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Just speak plain truth.
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Okay, you need to be more specific. Do you have any of the lyrics?
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Write it yourself.......you could be finished by now instead of wasting time on this website.
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by copy and pasteing it
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It is an anonymous quote... feel free to use it, and simply credit the author as "unknown."
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You can just google the lyrics you know.
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Do your own homework.
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You better start writing.
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It really kind of defeats the purpose if someone else writes it for you.  Wouldn't you feel like a fraud?  Anyway, here you go:\n\nRoses are red\nViolets are blue\nI'm nothing without you\nNothing but poo.
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The name above every other name is Jesus Christ.Is this what you are referring to?What do you mean "who wrote it?"
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you better write to them
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write on bro! testify...
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They may be inspired by God to write them, but there is no divine inspiration on the specifics of their writing. Hope that helps.\n\nGod Bless\n\nJETT