Talk:The Star-Spangled Banner

Misdated

The Star Spangled Banner was actually called out in the 1980s not the 1990s for being racial provoked. 2600:1700:39B0:3BE0:93D8:3FC0:9324:D031 (talk) 15:54, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

nonsense ~2026-11756-44 (talk) 16:26, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Further or Farther Correction?

There they learned Beanes was aboard HMS Tonnant farther down the Bay.Iraklizourabichvili (talk) 00:18, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Typo on lyrics sheet

The lyrics sheet has a typo - it say "out flag was still there" instead of "our flag was still there" (bold added by me) CoffeeGoatCheers (talk) 19:50, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

13 or 15 Stars and Stripes?

The description does not match the flag. Change whichever is incorrect. ~2026-28987-87 (talk) 01:53, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

The text and the image both reflect 15 stars and stripes. Where does it say (or show) 13 stars and stripes in this article? Schazjmd (talk) 12:54, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 June 2026

Use the original 1814 lyrics by Francis Scott Key:

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight

O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Those are the actual lyrics of the anthem. ~2026-34509-14 (talk) 18:05, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

 Not done. It's not clear what changes you want to make. Also, the lyrics are already in the article. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 21:49, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Replacing the lead image with the original manuscript by francis scott key

I feel that although the current header image shows the earliest surviving sheet music paper of the anthem, directly below that however, there's the original manuscript, written by francis scott key, and is the earliest paper of the star spangled banner, written on that british ship, which is a lot more influential than the current infobox image, and i feel that the original manuscript should be the infobox image due to it being the first ever writing of the lyrics, on that british ship.

Sure, there are other national anthem pages that have the sheet music as the header, but not all. Examples include: Advance Australia Fair, March of the Volunteers, and La Marseillaise, and Deutschlandlied, has a Facsimile of the original manuscript, which is also the most important individual paper, or paper representation of the german national anthem. Dylan240 (talk) 19:13, 19 June 2026 (UTC)