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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 4857547, member: 37"] Ironically for this thread and because we are discussing something that happened on 2$ beer night you chose to offer the Star Spangled Banner as a counterpoint. [I]The melody Key assigned to accompany the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was a popular English drinking song called “To Anacreon in Heaven.” Written around 1775 by John Stafford Smith, the song honored the ancient Greek poet Anacreon, a lover of wine.[/I] And: [I]“America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)” uses the same melody as that of the British national anthem, “God Save The Queen.”[/I] Now the second steal makes sense in that we were deliberately sticking it to the British. But the first is hilarious. [/QUOTE]