| lyric | 1. Yankee Doodle went to town,
A riding on a pony;
Stuck a feather in his hat
and called it macaroni.
Refrain:
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
and with the girls behandy.
2. Father and I went down to camp
A long with Captain Gooding:
And there we saw the men and boys,
As thiek as hasty pudding.
3. There was Captain Washington,
Upon a slapping stallion,
A-giving orders to his men,
I guess there was a million.
4. And there we saw a thousand men,
As rich as ’Squire David;
And what they wasted every day,
I wish it could be saved.
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4. Then we saw a giant gun,
large as a log of maple,
Upon a deuced little cart,
a load for father’s cattle.
5. Every time they shoot it off,
it takes a horn of powder,
It makes a noise like father’s gun,
only a notion louder.
6. I can’t tell you half I see,
they kept up such a smother,
So I took my hat off, made a bow
and scampered home to mother.
7. Yankee Doodle is the tune,
Americans delight in,
’T’will do to whistle, sing or play,
and just the thing for fightin’. |