When this answer arriv’d from the Jolly Old Grecian That he their Inspirer and Patron would be O Anacreon in Heav’n, where he sat in full Glee, I left the spelling and punctuation as it was originally. Well, there is a lot of talk about drinking in it, and Bacchus, of course, was the Roman god of wine and intoxication…. “To Anacreon in Heaven” was the club’s official song. The Anacreontic Society was a group of amateur musicians, all men, who got together and did what groups of men frequently do. The melody was written by John Stafford Smith and the lyrics by Ralph Tomlinson for an 18 th-century London social club called the Anacreontic Society. The tune was lifted from what people refer to as an old British drinking song called “To Anacreon in Heaven.” There’s no doubt about the origin of the tune, but whether it was a drinking song, well, judge for yourselves. When Key saw the American flag still waving in the morning, he was inspired to write his poem.īut he didn’t call it “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Instead, he titled it “The Defence of Fort M’Henry.” Everyone knows that Francis Scott key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner.” It was on September 14, 1814, to be exact, during the War of 1812 while awaiting the results of the Battle of Baltimore, in which British ships bombarded Fort McHenry.
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