Star Spangled Banner Us Anthem March 1931Reported by News24by7
on Wednesday, 4 July 2012 (on July 4, 2012) Star Spangled Banner
Us Anthem March 1931---"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the
national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come
from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the
35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after
witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal
Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry
in the War of 1812. 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. "The Anacreontic Song"
(or "To Anacreon in Heaven"), with various lyrics, was already
popular in the United States. Set to Key's poem and renamed "The
Star-Spangled Banner", it would soon become a well-known
American patriotic song. With a range of one and a half octaves,
it is known for being difficult to sing. Although the poem has
four stanzas, only th