In the year 1889, the United States Navy officially used the “ The Star-Spangled Banner“. The poem has four stanzas and until today, only the first stanza is sung by the public. The poem was sung ranging one-fifth and one octave, which is very difficult to sing for people who can’t reach big and high notes. Soon after, the poem was renamed “ The Star-Spangled Banner“. The anthem’s tune was taken from the song To Anacreon in Heaven, written by John Stafford Smith, which he dedicated wrote for the Anacreontic Society in London. Seeing the attack made by British colonies to his homeland, he wrote a poem, which he never knew would become a national anthem 119 years later. He wrote the poem after seeing that the Fort McHenry was barraged by the Royal Navy British ships in the war of 1812. It was actually a poem written by Francis Scott Key, who was a poem enthusiast at that time as well as a lawyer. Every country has their national anthem, but in the United States, and in our country, it is the Star Spangled Banner.
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