The supporters of Spanish side Valencia CF used to sing it with the words "Xe que bó!" which means something like "Oh! How good" in Catalan, and those words have become a symbol for the team. The tune is widely used by soccer fans, with the trio/grandioso section sung with the words "Here We Go". There was also an orchestral arrangement of the march by Carl Davis and David Cullen for the album Carl Conducts.Classical Festival Favourites. There are several orchestral transcriptions of "The Stars and Stripes Forever", including one by conductor Leopold Stokowski and one by Keith Brion and Loras Schissel. "The Stars and Stripes Forever" is featured in many U.S. It was also heard in the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Hollywood Plucky", and an episode of Sesame Street these parody lyrics themselves are well-known enough to have spawned many other parodies of their own. The parody lyrics are credited to Charles Randolph Grean and Joan Javits. It was recorded by Mary Healy and Peter Lind Hayes in 1954 and by Homer and Jethro in 1955 as "Crazy Mixed Up Song".
The "web-footed friends" parody, was sung at the end of every episode of the popular 1960s TV series Sing Along with Mitch. Two of the most widely known such sets begin with the words "Three cheers for the red, white and blue" and "Be kind to your web-footed friends". Many other sets of lyrics, patriotic and otherwise, have been written for the last strain (trio/grandioso). This arrangement has additional lyrics written by Tidmarsh for the Breakstrain section of the march. In 1942 the John Church Company published a four-part choral version of the march with a piano arrangement by Elmer Arthur Tidmarsh. (repeats) Other nations may deem their flags the best
Is the flag of flags, the flag of Freedom's nation. Other nations may deem their flags the bestīut the flag of the North and South and West The typical pairing of Sousa's lyrics with the various sections of the march is noted in the square brackets. Sousa wrote lyrics to the piece, although they are not as familiar as the music itself. In the final repeat of the trio (grandioso), the low brass joins the piccolo players with a prominent countermelody. Piccolo players play the famous obbligato in the first repeat of the trio (the one after the breakstrain). Its trio is the most famous part of the march. The march begins with a four-bar introduction, which is followed by a dotted, playful melody. "The Stars and Stripes Forever" follows the standard American military march form. It was first performed at Willow Grove Park, just outside Philadelphia, on May 14, 1897, and was immediately greeted with enthusiasm. He composed the march in his head and committed the notes to paper on arrival in the United States. He was on an ocean liner on his way home from a vacation with his wife in Europe and had just learned of the recent death of David Blakely, the manager of the Sousa Band. In his autobiography, Marching Along, Sousa wrote that he composed the march on Christmas Day, 1896.