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I always do.
I don't care for the Star Spangled Banner. The music is reminiscent of Deutschland Uber Alles and the overture of a German comic opera I can't stand. It isn't nearly as inspiring as the French Le Marsielles or the Communist Internationale.
I do recall some holiday dawns and America, The Beautiful played softly with muted brass and muffled snare drums rolling slowly in cadence with colors raising on the main Parade Field at Camp LeJeune. That was good for some really big goose bumps.
I think America, The Beautiful should be our National Anthem because the Star Spangled Banner is harsh and boring.
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
I always do.
Do you get "Goosebumps" when you hear someone sing the National Anthem?
I always do.
I certainly agree with that.[...]
Of course that would mean most of the "pop" stars out there would no longer be willing or able to perform it, since they all seem to have to put their own "improvement" on it. The word "free" in the last sentence being among my main complaints with most of these people (it's a whole note - 4 beats only folks).