Talk:Stars and Stripes Forever (disambiguation)
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I highly recommend this article be renamed "THE Stars and Stripes Forever". Due to the fact that "THE" appears on the original manuscript of the march, I believe that the redirect from The Stars and Stripes Forever to Stars and Stripes Forever should not exist...
[edit] Lyrics
The lyrics that Mr. Sousa put to this march can be viewed on the website located under the Links section. Now you are more than welcome to write the other various lyrics that have been adopted from this march. But I really don't want to waste my time writing lyrics for a nursery rhyme that what I think are fairly stupid and misdirect people from an amazing piece of work such as this. That's just my opinion. Call it my inabilty to contribute information do to strong ethnical beliefs? No hard feelings everybody. SousaFan88
- Thanks for the link; I feel kind of stupid because I glossed over the external links section when I was reading the page. I added the lyrics to the end page, though they might be long enough to warrant a move to WikiSource. In any case, I think it's important that Mr. Sousa's original lyrics be included somewhere on the Wiki.
- As for your comment about nonsense lyrics, I do agree that they're fairly stupid. If they were to be included in Wikipedia at all, it would probably be done best on a separate article. I'm not going to go out of my way to type them up, either. It is rather silly.
- One thing to consider, though: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. When a song or other work of art becomes so ingrained in popular culture that everyone's heard some version of it, you can take that as another form of certification of the greatness of Mr. Sousa's work. • Benc • 18:46, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
