Our youngest just sent me this; the National Anthem at a SF Giants game in '93: https://www.facebook.com/gratefuldead/videos/1750521935133012/?comment_id=1249502236525716
Peter (who will refrain from saying rude things about those who say they couldn't sing........)
That was really nice.
Yeah. I mean, the song itself? Obviously glorifies war, and verse 3 tells of what a wonderful thing it was that the US troops massacred the escaped slaves who fought for the Brits (how
dare they raise their hands against their masters??), and the melody is so hard because you're supposed to be drunk to sing it; it was lifted from a song sung by a club of young "noble" Brits, organized for the purpose of consuming huge quantities of brandy and raping "common" girls - just altogether a really crappy anthem (I would recommend replacing it with "This Land Is Your Land" -
all the verses Woody wrote, not just the ones they teach us in grade school).
But they did do it beautifully, didn't they?
Peter
