Pete Seeger - "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Live at the Ralph Rinzler Memorial 1995]

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Pete Seeger - "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Live at the Ralph Rinzler Memorial 1995]

Pete Seeger recites a poem on the American flag and gives the history of the national anthem of the United States at Smithsonian Folkways' Ralph Rinzler Memorial in New Market, Tennessee in 1995. "The Star-Spangled Banner" features lyrics by Francis Scott Key set to the tune of a popular British drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven" written by John Stafford Smith. Learn more: https://folkways.si.edu/pete-seeger-collection/star-spangled-banner/to-anacreon-in-heaven Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smithsonianfolkwaysrecordings Twitter: https://twitter.com/Folkways Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smithsonianfolkways The content and comments posted here are subject to the Smithsonian Institution copyright and privacy policy (www.si.edu/copyright). Smithsonian reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove any content at any time.

5 min 31 sec

music folk "Woody Guthrie" "Pete Seeger" Smithsonian Folkways old-time non-profit