Oh, say, can you sing it?

• Position: Music - Star Spangled Banner - American national anthem - Brief Article

It's been our national anthem for almost 75 years, but few people can actually sing "The Star Spangled Banner." Ed Siegel wants to change that. A psychiatrist and amateur pianist from Solana Beach, Calif., Siegel wants to lower the key of the national anthem from B flat to G major. That change, he argues, would make the anthem accessible to even the tonally challenged. Francis Scott Key wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 1814, during the War of 1812, to the tune of an English...