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From: jjm@hou5e.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Our National Anthem
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Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 09:53:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  1 09:53:20 1983
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	There was an ad in a newspaper I saw this morning that had all
	three stanzas of our national anthem.  I don't think I had
	ever heard the second or third stanza before...

	As I remember my American History from grade school, Francis Scott
	Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner based on an old English
	drinking song.  (Possibly a bawdy drinking song.)

	Does anyone out there have the original words to the song, or
	are they no longer known?             

	Jim McParland
	ABI - HO
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