[benVFR]

So the state department apparently has the Star Spangled banner translated into other languages on it's website. (I can't find it)

So if that is true the government is not so bothered by the song being translated.

There was a German-language version of the SSB that was sung in the early 20th century. No one had a problem with it until WWI. We had a law banning speaking German during that war apparently, which put an end to singing the SSB in German.

In 1919 the Italian language version of the SSB was performed at Carnegie Hall. With apparently no one having a problem with it.

The SSB was first translated into Spanish in 1901. The Spanish Consulate did the translation and presented it to President McKinley so we could use it in the newly acquired territories of the Phillipines & Puerto Rico. Again no problem with it?