It took 117 years from the time Francis Scott Key wrote the words now known as The Star-Spangled Banner until Congress designated the song as the official national anthem in 1931. Though understated, the line “I’ll instruct you, like me to entwine The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’s vine” is unambiguous.Ĥ. The words of To Anacreon in Heaven, the song that Francis Scott Key borrowed for the melody of The Star-Spangled Banner, is a sly 1700’s paean to drinking and sex. Anyone with United States currency in his or her pocket or purse is carrying around a paraphrase of a line in the fourth verse of The Star-Spangled Banner, “In God is Our Trust,” changed it to In God We Trust and printed on coins since the Civil War and paper bills beginning in 1957.ĬHECK OUT 5 MYTHS ABOUT THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNERģ. Shakespeare wrote the phrase “by spangled star-light sheen” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and “what Stars do Spangle heaven with such beauty?” (The Taming of the Shrew).Ģ.
7 Fun Facts About The Star-Spangled Bannerġ.
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