Faith Hill is remembering the time when she had the immense honor and felt the immense pressure of singing the National Anthem at the big game.

It was in 2000, Faith Hill sang the National Anthem on arguably the biggest stage in the world: the Super Bowl.

Hill completely nailed this performance, with some people calling it the Gold Standard rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

While speaking with Stephen Colbert on the “Late Show With Stephen Colbert”, Hill reminisced on the experience, from the moment she accepted the offer.

Hill said as she reminisced on the experience:

“Singing the national anthem for the Super Bowl was terrifying. However, when I sang it, the Tennessee Titans happened to make it to the Super Bowl that same year. And I had accepted the honor, I was asked, and I said, ‘Oh, my gosh, yes.’ And I was like what did I just do? It’s terrifying.”

She also explained that she took a boombox to the bathroom before her performance to rehearse and walked straight to the field from there. Colbert asked her if she was nervous that she’d forget the lyrics.

Hill explained that the lyrics weren’t an issue for her….this time.

“It’s one of those songs you know so well and you think I’ll never forget the lyrics. This happened to me before. It was at a playoff game many years prior. I was singing at a Dallas playoff game, the beginning of my career, and I was asked to sing the national anthem, playoff game. And I’m walking out to the center of the field with this very generous guard, this woman that was walking me out, and I say to her, and this is televised, ‘Would you happen to know just the first word of the national anthem?’”

Obviously, she finally figured out that the first word of the song is “Oh,” but she did have a backup plan! She said, “I’m just going to sing ‘Amazing Grace,’ because they’ll forgive me for that.”

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Hill never had to stoop to that low level because the words to the anthem magically came to her before she had to begin. She was able to perform the Star-Spangled Banner in all of its glory during the Dallas playoff game, and no one was ever the wiser that she nearly didn’t perform the song at all.

Watch her full interview with Colbert below.

Watch it here: LateNightShow/Youtube