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NNadir

(33,512 posts)
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 11:33 AM Jul 2016

Greatest Show On Earth.


Cruising around the internet for interesting music, I opened a version of the Star Spangled Banner on YouTube where the leading comment was this:

HaoleboySurfEC3 weeks ago
A man of Japanese ancestry playing the national anthem written by a patriot from Maryland 200 years ago on a musical instrument of Hawaiian origin which was influenced by the guitars carried by the Portugese ranch hands. Yeaheah, that is one of the reasons we are still the greatest show on earth.


Well said sir.

Here is Jake Shimabukuro playing the "Star Spangled Banner" at Wrigley Field:

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