She will sing the US national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, at this year's inauguration ceremony on Monday.

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In Britain, the Queen joined Prime Minister Tony Blair to lead mourners at St Paul's Cathedral in London, where the US national anthem was sung.

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Little did Papa realize that morning that he was never to see us or hold us again, nor would he ever again harken to the meadowlarks of Yell County trilling a joyous anthem to spring.

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