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Old Sun Oct 23, 2005, 07:13pm
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These "pop" singers usually butcher the Anthem. A National Anthem should not be open to the singer's version. Listen the the PA announcer for the Cubs sing it. Listen to someone from Cleveland sing it. Heck, a singer from Canada (on the hockey games) sings it better. Listen to a military chorus sing it.

Tonight Lew Rawls even ADDED words that are not in the song.

'“To Anacreon in Heaven.” The origin of this tune is obscure, but it may have been written by John Stafford Smith, a British composer born in 1750.'

It was an old English drinking song.

Bob
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