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Pete Seeger - "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Live at the Ralph Rinzler Memorial 1995]

Pete Seeger recites a poem on the American flag and gives the history of the national anthem of the United States at Smithsonian Folkways' Ralph Rinzler Memorial in New Market, Tennessee in 1995. "The Star-Spangled Banner" features lyrics by Francis Scott Key set to the tune of a popular British drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven" written by John Stafford Smith.