A wee bit of Subversive patriotism

Tomorrow is The United States' Day of Celebrating its Own Existence. I'm proud of America, on the whole, even if I'm often ashamed of what its current political leaders have been doing in my name, of late. So here, I will indulge my own patriotic sentiments, but I will be subversive about it.

First, the original poem which became our national anthem. Key's grammar is as boroque as anything I've ever read, so I've put tranlations between the verses in italics. Reciting words without remembering what they mean is hardly patriotic, imnsho.

( In Defense of Fort M'Henry, by Francis Scott Key, 1814 )

Second, the original song that gave us the tune for the anthem -- a British pub song in praise of getting drunk and having sex with goddesses (Just a wee bit more pro-fun, I think): To Anacreon in Heaven (the tune plays automatically when you load the page, and plays on a loop, so you may want to mute, first).