Star Spangled Banner

american anthem?

why is the american anthem called the star spangled banner?

Public Comments

1. francis scott key.
   
   
   
   google him..
2. Name of the song chosen as the the National Anthem. Bald Eagle is the National bird but we don't call it an American Eagle. Get it?
3. Because it's about our flag and "star spangled banner" is a nic-name for the US Flag.
   
   
   
   (Because it's a banner spangled with stars.)
   
   
   
   (Spangled means "sprinkled" or "covered in.")
4. Um b/c our flag has stars....and it's a big @ss banner
   
   
   
   idk wtf a spangle is
   
   maybe spangled means hanging...lmao ^^^ okay sprinkled
   
   the banner is sprinkled with 50 stars representing 50 states
   
   
   
   ...
   
   star spangled banner= a big@ss banner sprinkled with stars
5. They just took a couple words from the song. The part that goes "Star Spangeled Banner, Yeeeeaaaaaahhhhh (they might not say yeah, I don't know the lyrics to that song. Call me a non-American, whatever. I just live here)" is the most dramatic part of the song, and therefore it's the most memorable. It makes sense to name the song after that part, like a lot of songs names just stem from the chorus.
6. I thought it was called the Scar Sprinkled Fanny.
7. Because it was actually a poem about our flag blue spangled stars and red banners. The poem describes a battle for independents in-which the U.S. flag was up. "when the rockets blast off" part is describing the old flair looking rockets that were used in battle. They are nothing like rockets now. It was more like a big bottle rocket fire work. Eventually the poem was given music and made a song. The same thing happened with the song Silent night, it was first a german poem and it then became a song.