Comments on: In which I defend the national anthem https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/09/defend-national-anthem/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:35:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: MattS https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/09/defend-national-anthem/comment-page-1/#comment-346863 Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:35:58 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=66392#comment-346863 “but who but a professional can hit that “rockets’ red glare”?”

The tune is an old English drinking song. You don’t need to be a professional to sing it, you need to be drunk.

]]> By: Rachel Maines https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/09/defend-national-anthem/comment-page-1/#comment-346859 Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:46:14 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=66392#comment-346859 Can you defend the tune against the charge that it’s undemocratic because it’s too hard to sing? Anybody can bellow along with “America the Beautiful,” but who but a professional can hit that “rockets’ red glare”? 🙂 When it was the drinking song “To Anacreon in Heaven,” everybody who sang it was probably too tipsy to care about all the cracking voices.

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