It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

On official occasions, only the first verse is usually sung. The words of the National Anthem are as follows: "God save our gracious King! Long live our noble King! God save the King! Send him ...

We only sing the first verse anyway, and the same sort of legislative act that made the song the national anthem could shorten it from four verses to three. No muss, no fuss, and one thing we all ...

It wasn't until 1931 that the song became the national anthem, when President Herbert Hoover signed it into law. Despite there being four verses, only one is generally sung. Some of the earliest ...

Depending on your tastes, Alicia Keys' rendition of the national anthem at Super Bowl XLVII was ... you'd have thought she added one of the other three verses to Francis Scott Key's lyrics.

A powerful rendition of God Save The King was sung at the Queen's funeral today - but not many people actually know all of the lyrics. The origins of the UK’s National Anthem are somewhat ...

Taking an hour to sing Greece has the world's longest National Anthem at 158 verses long. National Anthems represent a country's history, traditions, and identity - and it seems that Greece in ...

His third and fourth verses weren’t any more appropriate. So, before Advance Australia Fair became our anthem in 1984, the ...

according to which “the national anthem is performed, song and music, according to the related ceremonial". The ambiguous formulation allowed Algerian authorities to phase out the verses without ...

Clague: This whole stanza was cut from the National Anthem because of its mocking of the British. When we became allies with them in WWII, the verse drops out of use in “The Star-Spangled Banner.” ...