Wow, Great Star Spangled Banner Rendition at the Nascar Race

[Cypress Sun]

I know it's not on U-tube yet, a great presentation of the National Anthem today by a pre teen. Well done.

[Branchwater Jack SASS #88854]

Sounded good on the radio

[Matthew Duncan]

Why can the amateurs sing the anthem better then the professionals?

[evil dogooder]

Because they still have the heart and soul of singing. Professionals are more concerned with showing off

[Blackwater 53393]

An impressive performance, but DAMMIT!! Sing it straight!!

[Alpo]

Didn't hear it, myself, but I wondered, when I saw the post title, if it was "The National Anthem", or "So-and-So's VERSION of The Star Spangled Banner".

 

Based on Blackwater's statement, it was someone's VERSION.

[royal barnes sass #5792]

An impressive performance, but DAMMIT!! Sing it straight!!

Other than a little slow on the tempo I believe she sang it exactly as it was written. She did well!

[McCandless]

Why do performers sing it so slooow, like a dirge. It's supposed to be sung/played with spirit!

The song should be about the Anthem, not the performer...

 

O, say can you see,
By the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed,
At the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
Through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched,
Were so gallantly streaming.
And the rocket’s red glare,
The bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night,
That our flag was still there.
Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

 

 

2) On the shore dimly seen thro’ the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

3) And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

4) O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov’d homes and the war’s desolation;
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

[Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L]

She did fine.

 

GG

[Clay Mosby]

Personally I thought the fellow that sang the night before at the nationwide race (or was it the truck race?) did the best rendition Ive heard in a lloonnggg time. He sang it with passion, and he did it straight with a lot of talent.