While performing at the Esquire Ballroom in the 1950s, Willie Nelson would perform the fitting song to close the nights.

With that, the trumpeter and singer tucks into a lyrical, buoyant reading of “The Night Before Christmas.” He hews to the words but makes them his own in a voice that glitters with joy.

It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

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