To celebrate, let's all sing together the anthem we had unofficially before the Star Spangled Banana; viz., Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean:
and before that, although with no words: the first anthem, the Presidential March, Hail Columbia
and for completeness, the present anthem, 1st and 4th verses. (What? You mean there's more than one?)
Lastly, because I like it, America the Beautiful. Normally, I dislike song stylings, which this singer does by speaking some of the lines (pfui, sez I) but this is the only version I found at youtube that had the correct choruses for each verse. "God shed his grace on thee" can thus be seen by parallelism with the other choruses to be a plea in the imperative mode and not a statement of fact in the past tense.
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