National Anthem

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National Anthem

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Stand up and salute...I thought this was funny as hell....

Officer Sings National Anthem

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LMAO!!! That is so bad! He should lose his job for that. Holy shit....
"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?"

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I despise the "Star Spangled Banner" as a national anthem. People imagine it as being the song that can not be touched and imagine that it is anything but a hack. When in fact the melody of the song was simply one of the most popular during the War of 1812. You could do anything to this song but change the lyrics and any offense is really the the British drinking song To Anacreon In Heaven.[stream:a27a96e42b]http://www.contemplator.com/america/anacreon.html[/stream:a27a96e42b]

Anacreon is the ancient greek who established his his holy Trinity as "Wine, Women, and Song" - and refused to yield his ways. The song was a popular song which spoke wonders to the pirate heart!

To Anacreon in heaven where he sat in full glee,
A few sons of harmony sent a petition,
That he their inspirer and patron would be,
When this answer arrived from the jolly old Grecian:
Voice, fiddle aud flute, no longer be mute,
I'll lend you my name and inspire you to boot!
And besides I'll instruct you like me to entwine
The myrtle of Venus and Bacchus's vine.

The news through Olympus immediately flew,
When old Thunder pretended to give himself airs,
If these mortals are suffered their scheme to pursue,
The devil a goddess will stay above stairs,
Hark! already they cry, in transports of joy,
A fig for Parnassus, to Rowley's we'll fly,
And there my good fellows, we'll learn to entwine
The myrtle of Venus and Bacchus's vine.

The yellow-haired god, and his nine fusty maids,
To the hill of old Lud will incontinent flee,
Idalia will boast but of tenantless shades,
And the biforked hill a mere desert will be,
My thunder, no fear on't, will soon do its errand,
And, damn me I'll swinge the ringleaders, I warrant
I'll trim the young dogs, for thus daring to twine
The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine.

Apollo rose up and said, "Prythee ne'er quarrel,
Good king of the gods, with my votaries below
Your thunder is useless - then showing his laurel,
Cried, Sic evitabile fulmen, you know!
Then over each head my laurels I'll spread,
So my sons from your crackers no mischief shall dread
Whilst snug in their club-room, they jovially twine
The myrtle of Venus and Bacchus's vine.

better lyrics, if'n ya ask me.

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Man raum, whatchu talkin'...Our national anthem is the bomb..! Alica Keys, Beyonce...Whitney...Thass who need to be singin' it...This kid needs to be whipped between the legs for that offering...I was hoping that the clip ended with gunshots ringing out...LoL...

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ok who dropped the ball and asked that guy to sing the anthem???

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John Kerry did.

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I still cannot believe how bad he was. That was definately teh worse I have ever heard
"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?"

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