For some reason people can't seem to get the words right to "The Star-Spangled Banner" and here's proof.

As we reflect back on a Fourth of July holiday weekend that more than likely featured your neighbor firing off rockets about two feet from your bedroom window, here's a less than patriotic look at some singers who tried, and failed to nail our National Anthem.

It is, after all, an old bawdy bar anthem from Britain, reconfigured to be an anthem to those who fought in the War of 1812, which really took place in 1814. But it has notes no modern man can handle, and words he can't remember.

 

 

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