Anacreon (2010 Subtitle - I've only recently thought through these lyrics)

[mofro100]

haha his face is priceless. =D

[microdot]

absolutely loved this! I am Francis Scott Keys great great what ever grand nephew and I absolutely approve of this rendition of the original version of the melody and inspiration to The Star Spangled banner...he had to be drunk to write that song!

[BeerGogglesReviews]

CRAZY but I loved it.

There are 4 more verses in the middle that are missing here. Still cool though.

I want a beer drinking hat like that one.

[CheeseBlackOps]

@BeerGogglesReviews Are you everywhere TeL?

[BeerGogglesReviews]

@CheeseBlackOps I try to be. Anywhere that beer lurks I shall be there. Dun dun daaaa!!

[junior00bacon00chee]

goddamn i knew that scot francis key guy was full of shit. he had redcoat written all over him from day one. ahhh, the irony. good thing i always just sit down and try to ignore the music at the beginning of ball games. people think i'm unpatriotic, which is true, i have no allegiance to the government, but if anything IM the patriotic one for refusing to sing this redcoat ballad.

[sensordev]

There were two Anacreonotic Society groups. The first was a club of professional men and amateur musicians in London who wrote the song. The second was founded later at St. Andrews University and was also dedicated to music but did not create either the tune or lyrics of Anacreon in Heaven. I don't know anything about the predominant sexual preferences of either, nor does it seem to have any relevance.

[spam1138]

could you add in subtitels so I know the words?

[WrytchusAnger]

@spam1138

To ANACREON in Heav'n, where he sat in full Glee,

A few Sons of Harmony sent a Petition,

That He their Inspirer and Patron wou'd be;

When this Answer arriv'd from the JOLLY OLD GRECIAN "Voice, Fiddle, and 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 intwine

"The Myrtle of VENUS with BACCHUS's Vine.

[swartley3ga]

how do you sing like that!? wow! and I would love lyrics also!

[Rommell123a]

NICE JOB. Can you please post the lyrics? The lyric I am aware of is different from the one you are singing here. 

[wlwrk4fd]

LOL this is irony. So america kicks thos brittish butts out of the colonies, then gain independence, then eventually this country that supposedly gained indepence from great britain adopts a brittish pub song for drunks to sing while they are drinking. so the brits get drunk and piss on america. haha

[CampbelliteSoF]

@wlwrk4fd

Before we considered ourselves Americans, we considered ourselves loyal subjects of our King and of his majesty's colonies in North America. We shared a common history and culture.

(Our British cousins also wrote Yankee Doodle.)

[tbdonnelly67]

@wlwrk4fd Not only that! We fight a war to get them out of our country but never stopped using the system of measurements that THEY stopped using in favor of the French metric system. BTW? The French were our allies in the Revolution and would have their own a few years after ours. Go figure!

[HappinessDemon]

Holy S*&t !!!! Who is really singing that.

P.S. You know where to find the whole song sung? everywhere just has the first verse

[killer5362]

Amazing voice! great job

[jrcadet4]

It's interesting to think that this boozy epic would have been sung in American taverns in the same era whern 'The Star-Spangled Banner' was just being adapted to song. Wonder if they were ever belted out back-to-back, and if anybody could remember it the next morning?

[Inness54]

Not just a drinking song. A drinking song from a secretively Gay English fraternity! Issue not taken with the Gay community, but with the hypcritical souls who stand in homophobia, hand over heart, singing this tune, totally oblivious of what they are singing. Thanks Theditor for a clear and appropriate rendition of this tune. Your technigue of multiple voicing is admirable even by a Mongolian throat singer. ;-)

[Sheryl4Jesus]

All the comments on here are funny. You all need to grow up it is just a video goodness. I know someone is going to say something stupid to my comment as well so be it. But remember life shouldn't be about fighting with one another. Have a nice day.

[wcsxwcsx]

A stupid video, but at least it's got the clearest rendition of the original lyrics that I've heard. Autism can be such an embarrassing thing, Theditor.

[Theditor]

@wcsxwcsx And a fuck you to you too. But hey, whatever you have to say to people over the internet to make you feel better about yourself.

[England12321]

@wcsxwcsx

That's a bit uncalled for mate, he's only having a laugh.

Great video, Theditor :-)

[gunna35]

i hate your face

[xavis1991]

genius :)

[turkeysub3000]

good to know my national anthem is actually a drinking song.

[ballsopt]

win.

[Superclaudi28]

Nice Singing! ;)

[papertiger34]

Nice dude! I can't comment about the vocals, but you capture 100% the merry drinking spirit of the melody. I feel it makes difficult to think of patriotic stuff when you hear it. All I think of is of Venus and Bachus' stuff. I don't think you could get much more explicit than that in the 18th century :-))

[clioandeuterpe]

Sung in the true tavern spirit! Funny hat & all.

[MetaGrrrl]

The singing is actually Oak, Ash & Thorn, a fine group who performed at the California Renaissance Faire. And kudos to you sir for having that music!

[COMALiteJ]

Breath support? You wanna see BREATH SUPPORT!?

Search for "Cruella de Ville Tag." View any of the performances by Vocal Spectrum, bhsnerd (REAL vocal multitracking), or FineyLeee (ditto).

[ajshortii]

Wow i never knew there was an old british drinking song O_O a new thing learned for me.

but i dun like that fact they have that but

i think you know what i mean thnxs for putting it on i didnt know

[LordoftheHornets]

i think you dont like the fact that your national anthem which is actually 1 of the things stands for your independance from the uk (along with your flag - adapted east india co' flag) is actually a uk song, put another way, is anything really truly american unless it is native ?, not really so does it matter where its origins lie, the usa like the uk, is a mongrel nation of mongrel people, we in uk are proud of our diversity as i know most of usa are too, just accept it and feel better for it x

[muffles12]

where you get music from?

[ajferet]

The Oak Ash and Thorn website...

[songsterhiragana]

"The Star-Spangled Banner," which Congress designated as the USA official national anthem in 1931, is not easy to sing. Francis Scott Key wrote the verses in 1814 after witnessing the failed British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the war of 1812 and set his words —four verses' worth— to the tune of a familiar English drinking song. Yes, this is an old British drinking song. WHY?

[YorkshireSnave]

this tune was first writen by the british you tit then america raped it just like they did with our national anthem

[Theditor]

that's what he just said in a more american friendly way, you bloody bugger >.>

[songsterhiragana]

Did you know that the USA national anthem's first stanza is actualy a question (?) and not a statement? Is says: Hey, do you see that flag over there flying high above the British fort? And the old man answers: Yes, I can see it, in the second stanza, which is rarely sung. And the third stanza is an anti-British rant, so it is NEVER sung today, we are friends now, and the fourth stanza, is the best one, even better than this first one usually sung.

[ajferet]

Which kind of reminds me of the old Irish song "Boovalouge" "Look out for hirelings/King George of England/ seek every kingdom which breeds a slave..."

[songsterhiragana]

The old UK drinking song song, through its bawdy and imbibing lyrics, gained popularity in London and elsewhere beyond the Anacreontic Society, and new lyrics were also fashioned for it, including, in the United States. The Star-Spangled Banner became well-known after Francis Scott Key, "Defence of Fort McHenry" (original title of ''SSB''). Key realised it fit the tune of the UK drinking song "The Anacreontic Song".

[erracht]

LOOOOOOLLLLLLL

[YourWaiter]

thank you for posting this! i am a vocalist trying to memorize the words to perform it!

[prettyinpunk666]

wtf??? LOL!

[Paramud]

Best freaking display pic EVAR.