Star-Spangled Banner

Whistle
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Does anyone know where I can find the notation for the Star-Spangled Banner? Or even the ABC format?

I can barely even read the lyrics without getting emotional, but I would really like to know how to play it.

Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved 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 preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it 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!

[ This Message was edited by: Kim in Tulsa on 2002-09-10 19:01 ]

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If you can sing it, you can play it. Key of D seems to work best. Start on A, and work it out one note at a time. Only problem might be a G#, but half-holing will get it.

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X:26
T:The Star-Spangled Banner
Z:Jack Campin * May 2000 *
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:D
A>F|D2 F2 A2|d4 f>e|d2 F2 ^G2|A4 A2 |f3 e d2|c4 Bc |d2 d2 A2|F2 D2:|
f>f|f2 g2 a2|a4 g>f|e2 f2 g2|g4 g2 |f3 e d2|c4 B>c|d2 F2 ^G2|A4 A2 |
d2 d2 dc|B2 B2 B2 |e2 gf ed|d2 c2 A>A|d3 e fg|a4 d>e|f3 g e2|d6 ||



[ This Message was edited by: Walden on 2002-09-10 19:41 ]

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Thank you Aaron!

Kim

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[ This Message was edited by: Kim in Tulsa on 2002-09-11 11:34 ]

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Thanks Kim, maybe I’ll busk this right before the Lunasa concert tomorrow.

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Other formats:

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/gettune?F=GIF&U=http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/colonial.abc&X=26&T=STARSPANGLEDBANNER&N=StarSpangledBanner.gif