Star Bangled Banner - in the original minor key.

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Sounds like a funeral.....

[Permanut]

1. Sounds like the Salt Sprinkled Banana.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. It seems hauntingly appropriate right now.

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Thanks. It’s very interesting, much more complex.

[BlueSpot]

3. No. This is not right

The tune of the National Anthem is based on an old English drinking song "Anacreon in Heaven". It is not in minor key. I offer this:

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5. I read it on the internets, so I am probably wrong.

[Endlessmike56]

4. Nope!

[MineralMan]

6. No. The original and the source music were in a major key.

Someone has apparently redone it in a minor key. That is not a form it has ever been in, though..