2-Year-Old Adorably Mangles The Star-Spangled Banner' | HuffPost Weird News

Its the national anthem as youve never heard it before: By a 2-year-old who makes up in passion what she lacks in pronunciation.

Chelsea Dellaca of Des Moines, Iowa, recently filmed her daughter, Maddy, singing The Star-Spangled Banner on her toy microphone. The toddler does a pretty good job of staying in tune, although she takes some liberties with the lyrics.

Maddy nails the Oh say can you see part, but follows it up with by a doooot tur weee yight, which, as far as we can tell, didnt appear in any of Francis Scott Keys writings.

Still, she gets points for patriotism, and for showmanship.

Maddy manages to finish the song despite nearly toppling from her step stool stage.

Maddy started singing the national anthem in her brothers room using his step stool as her stage, and I just had to take a video, Chelsea told Caters News.

Seems Maddy is quite familiar with the song because of her father.

She learned the national anthem from her dad [Andy] practicing every day for a year before he auditioned to sing it at an Iowa Cubs game during the 2017 season, Chelsea told Inside Edition.

The song obviously struck a chord with Maddy and her older brother, Drew.

Shes been literally singing every day, Chelsea said. A lot of times well sing it in the car. If were running somewhere, shell just randomly start singing it. Shes just singing it for fun.

Maddy is such a natural performer that her mom predicts a future in theater.

You can see the complete performance below:

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