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Ted Leo 🍉

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Where is the lie

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Phasmatic's avatar Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social
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Amiee Mann is from Canadia so that won’t work.

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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Amen

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Arran's avatar Arran @arrannz.bsky.social
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I say this every year and no one listens.

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Chris Prine's avatar Chris Prine @chrisprine.com
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I was lobbying for Sufjan's but this is a strong contender

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That time when Australia had a referendum on whether to keep our national anthem or to switch to ‘Waltzing Matilda’ a song about a criminal on the run who eventually unlives himself during a shootout with the cops…

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Luca Gattoni-Celli's avatar Luca Gattoni-Celli @lucagattonicelli.bsky.social
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youtube.com/watch?v=uAYK...

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Dr. Wombat 's avatar Dr. Wombat @aspyre.bsky.social
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I think we might get more traction with Born in the USA.

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Hey Google play Cvnt by Sophie Hunter's avatar Hey Google play Cvnt by Sophie Hunter @hellofennel.bsky.social
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Fallout Boy has a song called Fourth of July as well and it may or may not be about a bi romance so may I also throw it in the ring for consideration (disregard avatar, I am not biased).

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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toss up between this one and x’s fourth of july

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The Dreadful Hair Clown's avatar The Dreadful Hair Clown @thechunch.bsky.social
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If I'm gonna be a pedantic jagoff, which I am, then the lie is that Francis Scott Key didn't write the Star Spangled Banner as a song. He wrote it as a poem called "Defence of Fort M'Henry." The tune came from "To Anacreon in Heaven," which was the official song of a British social club.

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Energetic Nova's avatar Energetic Nova @energetic-nova.bsky.social
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The usual competition is with America the Beautiful, which was written by a woman who had a life long “friend” she lived with in Boston till death did they part.

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TiggyStardust's avatar TiggyStardust @tiggystardust.bsky.social
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Okay but…Jimi Hendrix’s cover of star spangled banner fuckin rules.

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Nick † Wright's avatar Nick † Wright @nickwrightdata.ntw.app
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I immediately thought this was going to be Jason Mraz' "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" (because I'm uncultured and that might be the only song I've heard before that features the lyrics "the Fourth of July," or at least the only one my brain remembers)

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Ted Leo 🍉's avatar Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social
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I am amazed at how many people are not just enjoying the meme

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Tsotate's avatar Tsotate @tsotate.bsky.social
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The current anthem is also hard as fuck to sing.

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MC Catlap's avatar MC Catlap @tbragsdale.bsky.social
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Or....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V2d...

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It's Sometimes Sunny in Cincinnati 's avatar It's Sometimes Sunny in Cincinnati @cforever.bsky.social
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youtu.be/91rHFP0OtTE?...

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