The Anacreontic Song
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Uploaded by wolf4045 on Jul 4, 2009
The song "To Anacreon in Heaven" was a British song, sung by members of the Anacreontic Club. It bears the melody model for our Star Spangled Banner of today. The 4th Continental Artillery Band of Musick is modeled after a typical military band of the Revolution or War of 1812, with bassoons, trombones, oboes, clarinets, flutes and horns. The arrangement is 18th century or early 19th century.
(Recorded 1981 - 4th CABOM - "Marches and Contra Dances", chief musician: Merlin Jones)
www.1stbrigadeband.org
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I find it ironic that brits used to fall down to this song, and in America we have to stand up whenever we hear it.
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Dr. Anacreon, the famous Tarot card Reader, wrote this song around 1701 as an innocent drinking song, the 18th century Louie Louie. And just look what happened!
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Yeah, it's a drinking song. a BRITISH drinking song. Which means we took one of the British's means of making folly and turned it against them, making a not-quite-subtle mock at the British and then making the original song unable to sing without thinking of the anthem.
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@PetitePerson By all means, keep the tune.
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@superdan1875 British people don't have bad teeth. I don't have a clue where that myth came from.
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@dbeiswenger That's BRITISH drunk people.
It's a little known fact that we're the biggest drunks in Europe. Most people think it's the Irish, but I'd bet money that the average Brit could drink an Irishman under the table.
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@clockstop554 A rampart is an antiquated term for a part of a wall on a castle or fort.
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@sherifam Explains a lot, doesn't it?
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Sounds like someone was too busy hanging out in British drinking clubs when they were supposed to be writing a national anthem. Maybe he was drunk when he proposed using this, too. Haha, but The Star Spangled Banner's lyrics are better! Only, I still don't know what a rampart is...
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@sherifam only in America.
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yes you british wankas, we know it was a british drinking song. you see what had happened was... we heard it and said REMIXXXXX!!!!!! we did the same thing with Yankee Doodle...
clayfromsanantonio 1 year ago 44
So, wait... our anthem... was made by drunk people?
sherifam 7 months ago 26