And The Home Of The Brave

Francis Scott Key wrote the words to The Star Spangled Banner in 1814, but it would not become the national anthem of the United States until 1913.

The words were set to the tune of a (then) well-known drinking song, To Anacreon in Heaven, the composition of which has been attributed to British composer John Stafford Smith.

I find it doubtful that either of these two men could ever have conceived of an event like Woodstock, nor would they have imagined their combined work being performed as it was by Jimi Hendrix at the notorious 1969 festival.