When we became allies with them in WWII, the verse drops out of use in “The Star-Spangled Banner.” O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand There is some contention over the word usage here.

This reflected how “The Star-Spangled Banner ... and a second “Standardized Version” issued by the then U.S. Bureau of Education for use in schools — did eliminate the third verse ...

Ask students to view the following group of three videos to hear Mark Clague talk about the meaning of the four verses, terms found within The Star-Spangled Banner, and song writing in early ...

Second verse, same as the first ... with most of the starting 11 refusing to sing along with “The Star Spangled Banner” ahead of its match against Portugal early Tuesday morning.

He immediately began penning the first verse to the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Key set his lyrics to the then popular tune of the “Anacreontic Song,” the song of an 18th-century gentlemen’s ...

As Americans, we are united in knowing lots of things about “The Star Spangled Banner.” It appears that ... we tend to forget that the verse we sing ends in a question mark, not a period.

The Star Spangled Banner had its beginnings in September ... On some occasions, the fourth verse gets tacked on. The second ...