The lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a part of a poem, Written by 35 year old Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812: The Fort McHenry War of 1814. "The Star-Spangled Banner" the lyrics fits to a British Anacreontic society's song "To Anacreon In Heaven" by John Stafford Smith, then thus came this interpretation of the song which started in the Early 1900s in a audio recording that can be found by the National Library (Library of Congress). This song was sung so many times during each baseball game around the country, That it was set to become the First Official National Anthem of the United States in 1931 all the way to present day. "The Star-Spangled Banner" is just one of the few songs copied from British Patriotic Music Archives. September 14th is considered to be Independence Day for Fort McHenry, In result to the celebration, It reached it's 200th Anniversary in 2014 called the "Star-Spangled Spectacular". This rendition was sung by Alisan Porter during the Nation's Celebration of The Fourth of July at the Capital Fourth event in 2016. Previous Fort McHenry Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqSUa-j9Buo ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twVXiqyI-PA