Insult + Injury

I don't get it.

embarrassing to forget the words, but she was going to try again. the fall was just more than her pride could take i guess. too bad because she was a good singer.

there are americans that don't know the words either. (i do)

you are absolutely right cat. if you are going to perform, learn the piece of music properly.

you always think that! :lol:

MW, I can guarantee you that there is some topless that would scare the white off rice! Got a glimpse of some old (ancient) German(?) woman with dugs hanging down to her knees sitting on a beach over here. Had to let the wife drive home as I was blind in that one eye for a day and a half afterward.

very clever fellow. if he faked it good enough not to be found out he deserved to get in. musically that song is hard to perform and requires a rather large range.

yanky doodle was the song they made fun of us with.
francis scott key wrote the national anthem while on a ship harbored where a battle was happening on land. it was night time and he could see 'the bombs bursting in air' that 'gave proof throught the night that our flag was still there' because the bombs illuminated the flag that was still flying.

Actually, the tune of the national anthem did come from what people think of as a British drinking song called the Anacreontic song. It wasn't really a drinking song, nor did it make fun of America, but the tune was adapted from Britain to the US. The original was to promote what the society it was written for valued, music. The lyrics of Key's poem was set to the tune, and we got our national anthem as we know it today.
The original was used like Mohawk said, too. If you could sing the most difficult part, you were sober enough for more drinking.

sorry mw i did not know that. thanks venus.