OH SAY CAN YOU...DUH...WHAT THE HECK!

Can you, from memory, recite the lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner?

And did you know there are actually four verses to the song?

If not, don't feel like you're alone. A lot of people can't. So there is an effort underway to educate Americans to learn the lyrics to our national anthem.

The National Anthem Project will hold workshops, produce public service announcements for broadcast, and sponsor various school programs to emphisize the importance of the Francis Scott Key composition and it's role in our history.

I enjoy listening to the anthem when it's performed without a lot of hyperbole. If you want to hear a national anthem that will move you, sit down sometime and listen to O Canada.

BTW: Here is the first verse to our national anthem, just in case you forgot:

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.
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?"