Father and I went down to camp Along with Captain Gooding And there were all the men and boys As thick as hasty pudding. 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 hat And called it macaroni. Chorusĭuring the American Civil War, Southerners added some new lines of their own: Chorus It scared me so, I hooked it off, Nor stopped, as I remember, Nor turned about till I got home, Locked up in mother's chamber. Chorus I see another snarl of men A digging graves they told me, So 'tarnal long, so 'tarnal deep, They 'tended they should hold me. Chorus The flaming ribbons in his hat, They looked so tearing fine, ah, I wanted dreadfully to get To give to my Jemima. Chorus He got him on his meeting clothes, Upon a slapping stallion He sat the world along in rows, In hundreds and in millions. Chorus And there was Cap'n Washington, And gentle folks about him They say he's grown so 'tarnal proud He will not ride without em'. Chorus I see a little barrel too, The heads were made of leather They knocked on it with little clubs And called the folks together. Chorus And Cap'n Davis had a gun, He kind of clapt his hand on't And stuck a crooked stabbing iron Upon the little end on't Chorus And there I see a pumpkin shell As big as mother's bason, And every time they touched it off They scampered like the nation. Chorus Cousin Simon grew so bold, I thought he would have cocked it It scared me so I shrinked it off And hung by father's pocket. Chorus I went as nigh to one myself As 'Siah's inderpinning And father went as nigh again, I thought the deuce was in him. Chorus And every time they shoot it off, It takes a horn of powder, and makes a noise like father's gun, Only a nation louder. 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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