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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts) Mon Sep 25, 2017, 01:13 PM Sep 2017

The Anacreon Song (c. 1770)

Quick lyrics summary: "Let's get drunk and get laid"

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The Anacreon Song (c. 1770) (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2017 OP

Love your summary of the lyrics! SharonAnn Sep 2017 #1

Here's Francis Scott Key wandering around Fort McHenry wonderig where Anacreon hid his pants struggle4progress Sep 2017 #4

So no wonder it's T's fav song? bobbieinok Sep 2017 #2

I always thought it was much better as a bar song Warpy Sep 2017 #3

SharonAnn

(13,772 posts)

1. Love your summary of the lyrics!

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Sep 25, 2017, 01:15 PM

Sep 2017

struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)

4. Here's Francis Scott Key wandering around Fort McHenry wonderig where Anacreon hid his pants

Reply to SharonAnn (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 25, 2017, 08:20 PM

Sep 2017

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)

2. So no wonder it's T's fav song?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Sep 25, 2017, 01:30 PM

Sep 2017

Warpy

(111,245 posts)

3. I always thought it was much better as a bar song

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Sep 25, 2017, 02:27 PM

Sep 2017

and the worst thing Francis Scott Key ever did in his life was take a song that challenging to sing and turn it into a war anthem. His words are inferior to the original and only trained singers can hit all the notes--unless they're in a bar and bliind (and deaf) drunk.

Your condensation of the lyrics is spot on.

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