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"To Anacreon in Heaven" A.K.A. The Drinking Song (Lyric Video)

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While my old channel, MrJacon000 got terminated in early 2021, I'm still keeping this historical piece of American history on RU-vid. I originally published the first version of the Anacreon in Heaven video back on November 29th, 2011, the year I created my channel. Back then, I recorded the video from my laptop's speakers and covered the webcam because my 12-year-old self didn't know how to screen record the audio and publish it at a higher quality. 6 and a half years later, I decided to upload a higher quality version with the lyrics on screen. Despite the high view count of over 235,000 views before the termination, it's a shame to see that go away. At least I still have access to this video and I shall remain the carrier of the origin of the United State's National Anthem of the Star-Spangled Banner.
TL;DR: My old channel with this historic video got deleted due to it being terminated. I reuploaded it to educate people where the US National Anthem's melody came from.
(Originally published on 4/15/2018)
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
Lyrics:
To Anacreon in Heaven, where he sat in full glee,
A few sons of harmony sent a petition,
That he their inspirer and patron would be;
When this answer arrived from the jolly old Grecian:
Voice, fiddle, and flute, no longer be mute,
I'll lend you my name and inspire you to boot,
And besides I'll instruct you like me to intwine,
The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine.
--Words by Ralph Tomlinson, music by John Stafford Smith, about 1775
Almost all of you RU-vid viewers know that this is the same melody as "The Star-Spangled Banner".
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@r0cketplumber 3 года назад

It's a sobriety test- if you can hit every note, you need another drink.

@stephensanfilippo1845 2 года назад

It's actually very easy to sing. Concentrate.

@stephensanfilippo1845 2 года назад

Because "To Anacreon in Heaven" was originally sung by men and by men's singing clubs, it was sung quite low. Most people now cannot hit those low notes, so "The Star-Spangled Banner" is pitched higher.

@nothankyooo 6 месяцев назад

That's hilarious! Bravo! Lol.

@julievanderleest 2 месяца назад

This song is hard to hit each note the way it is. I’d need a drink just to loosen my vocal cords to get through it.😂

@musou94 4 месяца назад

America: Can I copy your homework? Anacreon: Sure, But don’t make it obvious America: National Anthem

@NJtoTX Год назад

I really, really want to see a bunk of sossed lads in an English pub singing this badly

@wpaez4782 Год назад

It's in James Burke's Connections III - Episode 5, "Life is No Picnic," at 19:38.

@rezaantoszewska612 7 месяцев назад

I think Francis Scott Key did just that.

@andrewlally7828 2 месяца назад

And an Irish pub

@ringc95 Месяц назад

Turn: Washington's Spies has a scene (S1E8 ~23min) with a bunch of British officers doing exactly this

@richardharmon647 Год назад

Good thing the revolution didn't happen now we'd be singing a song by Coldplay for our national anthem.

@TR4R 11 месяцев назад

Coldplay? I'd think about Maroon 5! XD

@osbone0076 10 месяцев назад

😂😂😂😂

@86RSJag 9 месяцев назад

Radiohead have a song called ‘national anthem’

@jimloth6091 8 месяцев назад

Could be worse - it might have been Mariah Carey. Canada would get Nickelback.

@ryanp9458 8 месяцев назад

“Sticking out your Gyatt for America. You’re so liberty. You’re so stamp tax. I just wanna be your colony”

@christianehmling5080 10 месяцев назад

This is what I sing at sporting events

@jimloth6091 8 месяцев назад

Can you imagine if one of the Ancreontic Club members had lived long enough to hear this being sung as the American anthem???

@littleloulou1 4 месяца назад

Yes, he lived to the ripe old age of 93

@bozo5632 Год назад

Sex, drugs and rock n roll since 1776, and don't let 'em tell you different.

@gardensofthegods 3 месяца назад

Since before then , as I heard one of the things they were looking for in the new world was Sassafras ... and what comes from the root of the sassafras tree is what was the original drug Ecstasy or X . As a youth I used to love drinking sassafras tea which used to have trace amounts in it ... of course I didn't know this except that I enjoyed the tea and it just seemed to make me feel good . And then when I was a little bit older it was taken off the market for a while as the government claimed it cause cancer which is the BS . What I heard is all the sassafras has to be extracted first so it can be legally sold to the big Pharma companies to make medicinal grade X . I remember seeing people on TV talking about it saying decades ago they used to get the real stuff from their therapists and it used to help with a lot of their communicating about their feelings and healing for example being given it for marriage counseling sessions .

@gardensofthegods 3 месяца назад

Also in the woods near me I found a large sassafras tree and I did hear the sassafras in them isn't really potent unless the tree is at least 30 years old . I haven't tried to harvest anything from it yet .

@sakkra93 11 месяцев назад

It's kind of fitting that Francis Scott Key used a drinking song for his song when you consider the *insane* amount of liquor Americans drank on a daily basis in the 19th century. 19th century Americans were hard-core drinkers, they probably went through at least one bottle of Whisky every single day, and that was neat, mindst you, no ice, no water, no soft drink mixers. It's part of the reason why the temperance movement was so popular by the mid 1800s, because most men were getting black-out drunk every day of the week, to the point of neglecting their wives and children.

@cateatfood6634 3 месяца назад

And these days, all you need is video games and pr0n to neglect your children amd wife!!! But that's ok, because they're not addicted to a substance and it costs no money!!!

@DoktorSwag69 3 месяца назад

my family has kept the tradition going for those hundreds of years and i will NOT be stopping the cycle of abuse. amen

@Mystic-j41776 2 месяца назад

Francis Scott key wrote the poem

@Ty-13 Месяц назад

One bottle of whiskey a day are you sure?

@jamesmoconnell Месяц назад

Beer, not whiskey. Cider as well . Bacteria and other microscopic parasites in water was not well known, if at all. The boiling of water involved in making beer sanitized the water, and the alcohol kept it reasonably free of parasites. This wasn't just in the Americas - this was worldwide. The boiling process saved people's lives, beer was just the process that inadvertently did it for them. Generally, people drink what was called small beer, meaning it had very low alcohol content. Children drank it. It wasn't about getting drunk - it was just what people did, instead of contaminated water.

@viaconcommander9876 Год назад

America truly is British

@Mungdaal304 Год назад

Yep. Just if they had less order

@definitelynotbrenner 3 месяца назад

The British empire is dead

@NotWackoJacko 2 месяца назад

@@definitelynotbrenner nah

@Mystic-j41776 2 месяца назад

@@Mungdaal304 and the UK couldn’t even hold on to their territory

@GenerationNextNextNext 2 месяца назад

Well, the colonized portions of it.

@hankkingsley9300 2 года назад

Waiting for an explosion in the middle AKA Monty Python

@OeditpusRex 8 месяцев назад

My god, Betty! I can't believe I didn't think of that!

@balatsu1 2 года назад

Salut to Anacreon.

@JonnyVision88 Год назад

I will inspire you to boot

@Mystic-j41776 2 месяца назад

Nah. Salute to America 🇺🇸

@Akkolon 2 года назад

The irony of using a drinking song for your national anthem in a country where you cant drink before you are 21 and the beer is thin as piss ;)

@raynemichelle2996 Год назад

The US national anthem was written 25 years before the establishment of any legal drinking age in the United States, when Wisconsin made it 18 to be able to purchase alcohol without parental consent. I wonder if children could by it with a note from their parents. My grandmother used to send my 5 year old mother to the store to pick up a pack of cigarettes. That's the 60s for ya.

@michaelmckinnon2906 Год назад

@@raynemichelle2996 18 used to be the legal drinking age for all 50 US States, now the only way you can drink under the age of 21 in the US is to join the US Military where you drink at the base's Canteen, (the bar on base) when off duty aboard ship and even get alcohol at the Base Exchange (alternatively called PX or BX, must depend on where you are because I've heard both) because as I was told, "if you're old enough to die for your country, you're old enough to drink" (drive too)

@jamesevans938 Год назад

@@michaelmckinnon2906 this in comparison to the Royal Navy that allows personnel to drink two cans of beer a day even when deployed and not only when the ship is docked. But if I’m correct the drinking underage only applies to when they at a base that is abroad and not at bases located in the US

@rebecca8525 Год назад

It’s appropriate, then, that so many people get drunk on the 4th of July! Just be safe and leave the fireworks to the professionals, because there’s nothing patriotic about losing a finger or two.

@williammcglynn3506 Год назад

This song was writen was written by american soldiers under the direction Francis Scott Key. They had just gone through many gruelsome hours in a deadly battle. They had absolutely no intention of making it the national anthem.

@zvezda4701 Месяц назад

“What in the blazes, pray tell, art a kilometre?”

@douglarsen50 2 месяца назад

Great fun! I knew that the tune of our national anthem was an English drinking song. I never enquired what the words might be, and assumed that various lyrics were applied to the tune.

@randombritishperson. Месяц назад

I hate my neighbour. I have industrial revolution He also has industrial revolution I have song He takes my song I have monarchy He doesn't have monarchy Great success

@-----REDACTED----- Год назад

This makes SO much sense………😂😂😂😂

@mariadirani8849 3 года назад

a.k.a The Star Spangeled Banner

@mariadirani8849 3 года назад

a.k.a The United States of America Anthem

@mariadirani8849 3 года назад

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@garycitro1674 3 года назад

a.k.a. a HUGE mistake to use a melody unsingable by average people as a basis for an anthem.

@hankkingsley9300 2 года назад

@@garycitro1674 What you talkin about Willis every ball game they get it right

@garycitro1674 2 года назад

@@hankkingsley9300 it has a wide range of notes from low to high, so most people can't sing it well. The other side of that argument is that Americans like challenges so in our exceptionalism we can try to sing it. But the truth is, most people don't bother to sing it. Watch a stadium full of people in Scotland sing their anthem at a soccer game. When it's easy to sing, everyone is more inspired to join in and it is louder and more robust. WATCH THIS. It spans only eight notes of the scale instead of 12: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h0Wz8ig2y9Y.html

@chadlin866 Год назад

For people/revisionists who keep insisting the "American identity" is distinct from the British/European one, here's to you.

@tomdrawsstuffs6092 4 месяца назад

at this point I should think you’d have to be pretty out of touch to say it’s not, but whatever

@maxington26 3 месяца назад

@@tomdrawsstuffs6092 yes. not you, but millions are.

@DoktorSwag69 3 месяца назад

maybe not, but guns

@inspirationalvideos1966 Год назад

The tune is still British, as are the colonies! (okay, maybe not the colonies! 😂)

@WJCTechyman 5 месяцев назад

Well, they still refer to some of those colonies as New England.

@Mystic-j41776 2 месяца назад

We may have British beginnings, but WE ARE NOT BRITISH

@inspirationalvideos1966 2 месяца назад

@Mystic-jd1776 Don't take it too seriously. It was only meant to be a joke.

@curtpiazza1688 2 года назад

Wow!

@julievanderleest 2 месяца назад

Imagine the forefathers watching this. Our national anthem tune was taken from a British drinking song. Then merging our flags together as well. We’re all cousins from across the pond after all.

@melquizedec 2 года назад

So the US anthem stole the tune of a bar english song 🍷🥴

@stephensanfilippo1845 2 года назад

It's NOT a bar song. It was sung by members of an exclusive professional gentlemen's club.

@rebecca8525 Год назад

Imagine if the national anthem was to the tune of “Last Friday Night” by Katy Perry or “Tubthumping” by Chumbawumba.

@harmonyovabraxas5556 Год назад

Star Spangled Banner literally is one of the worst anthems ever

@chaimafaghet7343 Год назад

@@stephensanfilippo1845 ...in the bar

@deisel7965 Год назад

@@stephensanfilippo1845 🤓

@thomaschinn6344 Месяц назад

class ruled then

@RockStarOscarStern634 9 месяцев назад

El Pendon Estrellado is a Parody of that song (basically the Star Spangled Banner in Spanish).

@oscarorozco7368 Месяц назад

Wow was this the 1st U.S national anthem? Because the rhythm is extremely similar as hell😂

@Tralfaz190 12 дней назад

The music was to this original drinking song. Then it was adapted to Francis Scott Key's poem, then it became our national anthem. It was written for a gentlemen's club in England 1:06

@MinecraftRulesAlways123 Год назад

This sounds like the star spangled banner

@Kreatorisbackyt Год назад

It's the father of Star Spangle banner

@senlin3112 Год назад

the star spangled banner sounds like this😂

@chestermarcol3831 Год назад

@@senlin3112 - I'm speechless... LOL

@TR4R 11 месяцев назад

Kinda familiar isn't it?

@Amauriking 8 месяцев назад

Actually was a pub's song during the british invasion after that, Francis Scott Key, wrote the actual lyrics inspired by Baltimora's battle in 1814. Since then US got their national anthem.

@danielkrcmar5395 5 месяцев назад

Hate it how they put the US flag in the top right even though the Union Jack is the senior flag.

@naverilllang 2 месяца назад

If they didn't, the canton wouldn't be visible, and all you'd see is red/white stripes

@danielkrcmar5395 2 месяца назад

@@naverilllang Nothing wrong with that.

@naverilllang 2 месяца назад

@@danielkrcmar5395 also our flag code states that the US flag is always displayed to the left (or in front of) other national flags

@danielkrcmar5395 2 месяца назад

@@naverilllang That's a universal rule everybody has really.

@naverilllang 2 месяца назад

@@danielkrcmar5395 don't care. America goes left/top. Looks better that way, and I'm legally obligated to do it that way

@troubledsole9104 Месяц назад

I need a drinking song where I can slur the words.

@jbizzle4922 6 месяцев назад

Based English drinking song

@jacobwynn9865 2 года назад

Nice. This isnrpy wat they made the star spangled banner off of , it's crazy but true.

@stephensanfilippo1845 2 года назад

The tune for "To Anacreon in Heaven" was used by many lyricists for political songs of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including previous compositions by Francis Scott Key.

@rebecca8525 Год назад

@@stephensanfilippo1845 One thing I’ve learned from watching Stephen Colbert over the years is that just about anything can be sung to this tune.

@michaelmckinnon2906 Год назад

Yankee Doodle (the first US National Anthem 1776-1861) and The Defiance of Fort McHenry aka The Star Spangled Banner (the third US National Anthem 1931-today) were both based on British drinking songs with only The Battle Hymn of The Republic (The second US National Anthem 1861-1931) being a religious song and that's one of the reasons I don't believe there's a separation of church and state

@trajan75 Год назад

You have a legitimate argument. The phrase attributed to Jefferson does not appear in the Constitution. The1st Amendment contains a Free Exercise clause and a no Establishment clause. The tension between those two principles is the basis for much Constitutional litigation.

@michaelmckinnon2906 Год назад

@@trajan75 the separation of church and state was written by Thomas Jefferson in the State Constitution of Virginia which some are under the erroneous impression that it's the US Constitution, in the US, cities and counties have charters, but the State and Federal documents are Constitutions which I suppose can be confusing

@trajan75 Год назад

@@michaelmckinnon2906 Yes it was Jefferson not the Constitution. I said "I believe" because I don't like to give an exact source from memory.

@michaelmckinnon2906 Год назад

@@trajan75 it was the State Constitution of Virginia rather than the US Constitution in which Jefferson wrote the separation of church and state, those are two separate documents and are among the examples of politics in action which tend to confuse a lot of people State Legislatures have State Senators and State Representatives which a lot of people confuse for being members of the US Congress which is likewise divided between Senators and Representatives just another example of politics in action.

@trajan75 Год назад

@@michaelmckinnon2906 Thanks again for the info. I knew that the statement is not in the US Constitution and I know that it is a separate document from the Virginia Constitution, but I never read that document so I was unaware that tthat was the where his phrase appears

@andrewlally7828 Месяц назад

Smart sng.But who ran the. army

@juan8g Месяц назад

Even the US national anthem uses samples.

@bas4116 2 месяца назад

Is it wrong to take a knee during this song ?

@Mystic-j41776 2 месяца назад

It isn’t the anthem so no

@theBATgoesUPoh 9 месяцев назад

what a flex on the british

@methanedirigible 2 месяца назад

*by

@theBATgoesUPoh 2 месяца назад

@@methanedirigible all I'm saying is this tune isn't recognizable by its drinking song

@noblesavage8332 Год назад

Feeling more patriotic with this song

@psychocuda 4 дня назад

I mean, a country that got its start by a bunch of drunk farmers and blacksmiths getting sloshed in taverns and saying "you know what, screw the Brits," would of course make a drinking song the anthem.

@garychap8384 6 месяцев назад

Now THERE's an ideal to base a nation on ; ) Let's get this party started, lads... drink and debauchery awaits : ))))

@DroidTSK 2 года назад

Murica, fuck yeah

@troubledsole9104 6 месяцев назад

I feel compelled to kneel on a football field for some reason.

@Blaze016 3 месяца назад

Remember when Jimi Hendrix covered this song? Man, that was phenomenal.

@GenerationNextNextNext 2 месяца назад

Francis probably wanted to insult the Brits by changing all the words to this song to mean something more American. Or he was drunk at the time. Or both.

@birdie9325 2 года назад

*hiding this to copy*

@Sev1439 3 месяца назад

Came here from drunken history

@TheWagonConductor1899 10 месяцев назад

The Origin Of The US Anthem. 🇺🇸

@Mystic-j41776 2 месяца назад

No, that was the battle of Baltimore

@HennyHypesOfficial Год назад

USA

@Pfeiffer-fp2se 7 месяцев назад

Hell yeah this is what The United States is based on, drinking and firearms! Pretty fun bad ass duo if you ask me.

@MetalMe55iah Месяц назад

Theirs nothing original about america lol

@fishmanwaterofficial Месяц назад

RAHHHHHHH 🦅🦅🦅

@mikemcq10 Месяц назад

That’s the lamest drinking song I’ve ever heard. I hope they were singing it the night that Washington crossed the Delaware.

@danielwright266 Год назад

ok. this is terrible. yeah american anthem was likely stolen from this song. but originally it was horrible. it's like what we learned first year of music lessons. we literally took a popular song, deconstructed it, then made a parody/joke version of it. american anthem is a grandiose, piss take version of an existing piece that somehow became their national anthem, and somehow was taken seriously