![]() ![]() Chorus And there I see a swamping gun Large as a log of maple, Upon a deuced little cart, A load for father's cattle. Chorus The 'lasses they eat it every day, Would keep a house a winter They have so much, that I'll be bound, They eat it when they've mind ter. Chorus And there we saw a thousand men As rich as Squire David, And what they wasted every day, I wish it could be saved. Fath'r and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Gooding, And there we saw the men and boys As thick as hasty puddin'. ![]() Chorus: Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy. Yankee Doodle went to town A-riding on a pony, Stuck a feather in his cap And called it macaroni'. The Boston Journal of the Times wrote about a British band declaring "that Yankee Doodle song was the Capital Piece of their band music."Ī full version of the song, as it is known today, goes: One version of the Yankee Doodle lyrics is attributed to Doctor Richard Shuckburgh, a British Army surgeon, who wrote the song after witnessing the unprofessional appearance of Colonel Thomas Fitch, Jr., the son of Connecticut Governor Thomas Fitch, who arrived in Albany in 1755 with the Connecticut militia. 'Macaroni' was a contemporary slang for foppishness in other words, the Yankees were being mocked for the idea that they thought simply sticking a feather in a cap could make them the height of fashion. It is believed that the tune comes from the nursery rhyme Lucy Locket. The word doodle first appeared in the early seventeenth century to mean a fool or simpleton, and is thought to derive from the Low German dudel or dödel, meaning "fool" or "simpleton". The song's origins were in a pre-Revolutionary War song originally by British military officers to mock the dishevelled, disorganized colonial "Yankees" with whom they served in the French and Indian War. Yankee Doodle went to town, A-Riding on a pony He stuck a feather in his cap, And called it macaroni. The first verse and refrain, as often sung today, run thus: It has been widely adopted in the United States and is often sung patriotically today. Its name describes a country bumpkin, incautious in personal habits. ![]() " Yankee Doodle" is a well-known British song, the origin of which dates back to the Seven Years' War. ![]()
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