The Star-Spangled Banner: our beautiful national anthem perfectly mirrors the deeply religious and patriotic nature of its composer, Francis Scott Key.(History--Struggle For Freedom)

 
   To Anacreon in Heav'n, where he 
   sat in full glee, 
   A few Sons of Harmony sent a 
   petition; 
   That he their Inspirer and Patron 
   would be; 
   When this answers arrived from 
   Jolly Old Grecian; 
   "Voice, Fiddle, and Flute, 
   No longer be mute 
   I'll lend you my name and inspire 
   you to boot, 
   And besides I'll instruct you like me, 
   to intwine, 
   The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's 
   Vine." 

Were you humming along as you read? What--don't know the tune? Perhaps a set of more familiar lyrics will jog your memory:

 
   Oh, say, can you see, by 
   the dawn's early fight, 
   What so proudly we hailed 
   at the twilight's last 
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