[Dixielandjazz] Super Bowl National Anthem

[Phil Wilking]

Yes, since they obviously had a better grade of drunken saloon singer 200 
years ago than now.

For the non-USA people who don't know, Francis S. Key wrote the words "The 
Star Spangled Banner" as a poem. It was published in a newspaper and quickly 
set to the music of "To Anacreon In Heaven."

Phil Wilking

Those who would exchange freedom for
security deserve neither freedom nor security.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen G Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>


>
> But then what can we expect since the melody is an Old English  drinking 
> song?
>
> Would we prefer a drunken choir of 50 singing it in an English pub?