Talk:The Anacreontic Song

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This was the drinking song of the Anachrontic Society and was adopted as the tune for the Star Spangled Banner. It looks like a joke partly because the "long s" looks like an "f". I'm replacing the lyrics with some more readable ones with the antique typography. -- Cecropia | Talk 14:53, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Removed Inactive Link 2 A question 3 To drink or not to drink 4 National Anthem of Luxembourg

[edit] Removed Inactive Link

Removed link to UVa's mp3 -- link no longer active (** To Anacreon in Heaven(MP3, 0:46)) Robko626 19:14, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A question

How likely is it that the poem by Francis Scott Key just happened to fit the meter of the music? It is a highly irregular meter, and it would seem unlikely that one could compose a poem that just happened to fit.

Mzellers 02:18, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] To drink or not to drink

In short: either this article is wrong, or the article on The Star-Spangled Banner is wrong, see here Flex Flint (talk) 07:19, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] National Anthem of Luxembourg

Is this true? : "...the same Stafford Smith tune was also used as the national anthem of Luxembourg, but their anthem has since changed." (from the John Stafford Smith Article). It could be possible but I never heard this before. Is there any evidence and was it really official? When was it used (I only find these sources with "once")? That isn't a very clear... --Schnékert (talk) 10:24, 30 May 2008 (UTC)