I would have posted Spaeth's words had a previous poster not beat me to it. I understand from reading somewhere that the tune was a popular one and used as a campaign song for the first Adams under the title Adams and Liberty but don't have words for that. A friend and I occasionally do historical gigs & when doing Revo War gigs explain that we can't do the Star Spangled Banner because it hadn't been written yet, but it WOULD be in period to do the song that was used as the tune-- "our country's national anthem started as a pagan drinking song." (And just why is that eye staring at me from the back of the one dollar bill??!!) Pete