Jan asked a good question about embellishing the Nat'l Anthem. I know that at one time you could be arrested for getting too "wild and crazy" with the SSB. It was discovered in the early 1900's that Igor Stravinsky was writing an arrangement of the anthem. He was warned, given his affinity for things like bitonality and polyrhythmics, that he would be arrested if he damaged the integrity of the piece. To everyone's pleasant surprise, he provided a very lovely, a cappella arrangement for male chorus. Today, things must have changed radically. When one considers the shameful, digusting mockery Roseanne made of the song a few years back, it must be "anything goes" now.