Sunday, October 20, 2013

Broadway singer cranks out three verses of 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' confuses everyone.


'The Star-Spangled Banner' has four verses.

Odds are you don't know this. In fact, odds are you only know the first verse--and assume that's the national anthem in its entirety.

Except Francis Scott Key's poem 'The Defence of Fort McHenry'--which is the lyrical base to the national anthem--is forgotten except for that first verse. So the folks at Extra Mustard decided to have Broadway singer Lena Hall belt out three of the four verses of the national anthem at the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs minor league baseball game and videotape the crowd's response.

What you get is this:






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