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[nicholasg 0]

I just wondering if we take ceremony same day , n do i have to remember this song all , THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, because if ceremony together i think we can just follow everybody, but since only one person , maybe they will ask to read or test if i remember this song .

Thanks n appreciate.

[Dakine 26]

I just wondering if we take ceremony same day , n do i have to remember this song all , THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, because if ceremony together i think we can just follow everybody, but since only one person , maybe they will ask to read or test if i remember this song .

Thanks n appreciate.

Why don't you just learn it? Do you know your home countries anthem?

America will be your "home country".

[nicholasg 0]

I just wondering if we take ceremony same day , n do i have to remember this song all , THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, because if ceremony together i think we can just follow everybody, but since only one person , maybe they will ask to read or test if i remember this song .

Thanks n appreciate.

Why don't you just learn it? Do you know your home countries anthem?

America will be your "home country".

I am trying but is not easy to remember it all, special right now i have to study for test,

[NickD 203]

I just wondering if we take ceremony same day , n do i have to remember this song all , THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, because if ceremony together i think we can just follow everybody, but since only one person , maybe they will ask to read or test if i remember this song .

Thanks n appreciate.

Why don't you just learn it? Do you know your home countries anthem?

America will be your "home country".

I am trying but is not easy to remember it all, special right now i have to study for test,

If someone said the oath the same day as their interview, would be curious as to how that went. Wife had 40 others at hers, could have just lip synced through it, but didn't have to memorize anything, including the oath. Regarding the pledge of allegiance and the national anthem, they showed a capitoned video on a monitor, so if you can read or even sign English, would have no problems. The oath was recited in very short phrases, so have to be able to remember 5 or 6 words at a time.

I would just concentrate on your civics test, if you don't pass that, won't even make it to the oath, but the oath ceremony, least for my wife, was easy.

[Dakine 26]

I just wondering if we take ceremony same day , n do i have to remember this song all , THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, because if ceremony together i think we can just follow everybody, but since only one person , maybe they will ask to read or test if i remember this song .

Thanks n appreciate.

Why don't you just learn it? Do you know your home countries anthem?

America will be your "home country".

I am trying but is not easy to remember it all, special right now i have to study for test,

Maybe this will help. My adopted daughter sing it right after she got her US citizenship!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

We didn't sing the Star Spangled Banner at my oath ceremony. We were handed sheets that had the words printed on it for the Oath and for the Pledge of Allegiance, both of which we said by repeating them line by line after the USCIS Director said them first. We could read them as we went along. You will be fine:-). Study for your Civics test and memorize those answers first. There will be time to memorize the National Anthem afterwards. Good luck.

Edited October 16, 2009 by Kathryn41

[visacheck 3]

I just wondering if we take ceremony same day , n do i have to remember this song all , THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, because if ceremony together i think we can just follow everybody, but since only one person , maybe they will ask to read or test if i remember this song .

Thanks n appreciate.

Worry about passing the interview first!

[NickD 203]

Wife was mystified by that word "spangled", by definition, not even the correct word to described the placement of the stars on our flag, but poetic by Francis Scott Key. Later set to music from an old England pub tune, really a contradiction since our country was formed by breaking away with England. Think with all the great song writers we have in this country, we can do better than that.

I have problems hitting some of those high notes, so have to lower those a couple of octaves. Seems almost blasphemous the way some of our pop singers, sing it.

Helping my wife study for the civics test was an eye opener for me, where did we go wrong. If I deduct my share of that weird abstract art thing they put in front of city hall from my property taxes, can have my home taken away.

[warlord 73]

Don't worry about it. I don't even know my former home countries national anthem either...

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Wife was mystified by that word "spangled", by definition, not even the correct word to described the placement of the stars on our flag, but poetic by Francis Scott Key. Later set to music from an old England pub tune, really a contradiction since our country was formed by breaking away with England. Think with all the great song writers we have in this country, we can do better than that.

I have problems hitting some of those high notes, so have to lower those a couple of octaves. Seems almost blasphemous the way some of our pop singers, sing it.

Helping my wife study for the civics test was an eye opener for me, where did we go wrong. If I deduct my share of that weird abstract art thing they put in front of city hall from my property taxes, can have my home taken away.

Does not "spangled" mean set in circular pattern?

Flag as of 1812 did have such arranement (not doable with 50 though)

Many of the courts now use Lee Greenwood's 1990 song "God Bless The USA" instead now (they did at my own swear-in in 2005)

Edited October 16, 2009 by Saddle Bronc

[NickD 203]

Spangled means to scatter on glitter, stars on the flag don't glitter and are placed in an orderly fashion.

But here the the words.

Oh, say can you see,

What you're doing to me,

With my wife, I want to be,

But you keep on charging a fee.