Who wrote the national anthem of the United States?
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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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Kelly Clarkson, winner of American Idol, season 1.\n\n\nOhh. Whoops. I thought you meant the National Anthem. Carrie Underwood did halftime, Kelly Clarkson was in the beginning.
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The Preamble to the United States Constitution is generally believed to have been written by Gouverneur Morris. Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816) was an American political leader and diplomat who led the committee that produced the final draft of the U.S. Constitution (1787).\n\nA superb orator, eloquent writer, and fine literary stylist, Morris was a member (1775–77) of the provincial congress of New York, helped to draft the first state constitution, and served on the Council of Safety. Morris sat (1778–79) in the Continental Congress, where he was prominent in financial, military, and diplomatic affairs. \n\nMorris is widely accredited as the author of the US Constitution's Preamble: "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union...".\n\nMorris is regarded as a visionary of the idea of being "American". In an era when most Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their respective states, Morris expounded the idea of being a citizen of a single union of states
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Icarus Dream Suite by Yngwie Malmsteen is the first thing that comes to mind.It's actually Adagio for Strings re written for guitar.Eric Johsons version of the National Anthem is pretty good too.\nI love Hendrix but he's done so many things better than his version of the National Anthem,like the entire album Axis Bold as Love.\nBut seriously Heart Breaker by Lad Zeppelin probably takes the prize.
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the english bill of rights is from...or based loosely on the magna carta....exactly who wrote it...I'm not sure.\n\nThe US bill of rights (written by James Madison) is based on George Masons Virginia Declaration of Rights.
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true story - a couple of years ago i went to a minor league ball game. the words to the star spangled banner were displayed on the big scoreboard and the lyrics were messed up, but 6000 some people sang right along with the wrong lyrics! but during the 7th inning stretch, EVERYBODY was singing along with the spongebob theme song and all the words were correct! this happened in eastlake, ohio. are we in trouble as a society when we don't know the words to the national anthem, but we know all the lyrics to cartoon theme songs?
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Some one said they don't know the words, I will recite them for you:\n\nGod Save Our Gracious Queen\nLong Live Our Noble Queen\nGod Save Our Queen\nSend Her Victorious\nHappy and Glorious\nLong To Reign Over Us\nGod Save Our Queen.\n\nDavid Beckham always sings it, and rather loudly, but I know Gary Neville NEVER sings it. It annoys me when other countries don't sing their national anthem, I wonder whether they actually know it. Like Jamaica, NONE of them sang it, maybe it was because the whole team was actually born over here.
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I think Mr. Johnny Cash summed it up best-\nRagged Old Flag\nI walked through a county courthouse square,\nOn a park bench an old man was sitting there.\nI said, "Your old courthouse is kinda run down."\nHe said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town."\nI said, "Your old flagpole has leaned a little bit,\nAnd that's a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it."\n\nHe said, "Have a seat," and I sat down.\n"Is this the first time you've been to our little town?"\nI said, "I think it is." He said, "I don't like to brag,\nBut we're kinda proud of that Ragged Old Flag.\n\n"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there \nwhen Washington took it across the Delaware.\nAnd it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key\nSat watching it writing Say Can You See.\nAnd it got a bad rip in New Orleans\nWith Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams.\n\n"And it almost fell at the Alamo\nBeside the Texas flag, but she waved on though.\nShe got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville\nAnd she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.\nThere was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg,\nAnd the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag.\n\n"On Flanders Field in World War I\nShe got a big hole from a Bertha gun.\nShe turned blood red in World War II.\nShe hung limp and low by the time it was through.\nShe was in Korea and Vietnam.\nShe was sent where she was by her Uncle Sam.\n\n"She waved from our ships upon the briny foam,\nAnd now they've about quit waving her back here at home.\nIn her own good land here she's been abused --\nShe's been burned, dishonored, denied, and refused.\n\n"And the government for which she stands\nIs scandalized throughout the land.\nAnd she's getting threadbare and wearing thin,\nBut she's in good shape for the shape she's in.\n'Cause she's been through the fire before\nAnd I believe she can take a whole lot more.\n\n"So we raise her up every morning, take her\ndown every night.\nWe don't let her touch the ground and we fold\nher up right.\nOn second thought, I do like to brag,\n'Cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag."
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Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light\nWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?\nWhose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,\nO'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?\nAnd the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,\nGave proof through the night that our flag was still there.\nOh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?\n\nOn the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,\nWhere the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,\nWhat is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,\nAs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?\nNow it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,\nIn full glory reflected now shines in the stream:\n'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!\n\nAnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore\nThat the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,\nA home and a country should leave us no more!\nTheir blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.\nNo refuge could save the hireling and slave\nFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!\n\nOh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand\nBetween their loved home and the war's desolation!\nBlest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land\nPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.\nThen conquer we must, when our cause it is just,\nAnd this be our motto: "In God is our trust."\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! \n\nThat's the long version, usually people sing just the first verse, and it was written by Frnacis Scott Key while he was in a battle and saw the American flag and got very moved.
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The national anthem of the country that won the match.
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honey,that's a bit too hard.Is that really your homework?? gee..who wrote it? John Ashberry.Please tell us who wrote it.
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Are you referring to the song, "A Portuguesa"?  It's the National Anthem of Portugal.  It was written in 1890 and is a song about protesting the British.
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The UK National Anthem is 'God Save the Queen'\n\nEngland doesn't really have  specific one - Land of Hope and Glory refers to Britain too (and the British Empire that used to be).
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Imagine by John Lennon\n\nWhy?... the lyrics speak for themselves. When humankind is truly united and in peace, this will be our anthem:\n\nImagine there's no Heaven \nIt's easy if you try \nNo hell below us \nAbove us only sky \nImagine all the people \nLiving for today \n\nImagine there's no countries \nIt isn't hard to do \nNothing to kill or die for \nAnd no religion too \nImagine all the people \nLiving life in peace \n\nYou may say that I'm a dreamer \nBut I'm not the only one \nI hope someday you'll join us \nAnd the world will be as one \n\nImagine no possessions \nI wonder if you can \nNo need for greed or hunger \nA brotherhood of man \nImagine all the people \nSharing all the world \n\nYou may say that I'm a dreamer \nBut I'm not the only one \nI hope someday you'll join us \nAnd the world will live as one
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A fortification consisting of an embankment, often with a parapet built on top.\n\nWhen Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that was used as the words for the national anthem, he was on a British ship watching the bombardment of Ft. McHenry. The ramparts refer to Ft. McHenry. \n\nThe poem is the story of how after a full night of battle, when the sun came up, the U.S. flag was still flying over the fort.\n\nThe poem was later put to the tune of an old drinking song and became the song that later became the national anthem.
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No. Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence not the Constitution of the United States
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Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of independence. But James Madison was the "father of the Consitution"