Numlock Sunday: What song does everybody know?

Introducing your future national anthem.

By Walt Hickey

Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.

This week, something fun!

One of my favorite parts of going on vacation is getting a chance to get away from it all, to kick back, relax, have a couple drinks, have a couple more drinks, really get pretty lit all things considered and then get into an inebriated discussion about what songs you think everybody really knows. I’d insist that if it came down to it, yes, as a matter of fact, I can probably sing “Welcome to the Black Parade” front to back, thank you very much, and then immediately fail to do it. Spurious, unverifiable claims such as “I bet more millennials know the lyrics to Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’ than to the national anthem” get said, and cannot be unsaid. That’s what vacation is all about.

But one advantage of covering numbers, stats and culture all these years is that if one of those drunken arguments lingers in my brain, I can actually get to the bottom of it upon returning to my actual job. To do so, I reached out to…