Yankee Doodle

Words & Music

Traditional American & British

 

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Father and I went down to camp, along with Captain Goodin.

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And there we was the men and boys as thick as hasty puddin'.

 

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Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle Dandy!

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Mind the music and the steps and with the girls be handy!

 

And there we see a thousand men, as rich as Squire David,

And what they wasted everyday, I wish it could be sav-ed.

 

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And there was Captain Washington upon a slapping stallion,

With all the men and boys around, I guess there was a million.

 

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And oh the feathers on his hat, they looked so very fine, ah!

I wanted peskily to get to give to my Jemima!

 

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And there I see a swamping gun, large as a log of maple.

Upon a mighty little cart, a load for father's cattle!

 

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And ev'ry time they fired it off, it took a horn of powder.

It made a noise like father's gun, only a nation louder!

 

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And then I see a little keg, its head all made of leather.

They knocked on it with little sticks to call the folks together.

 

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And Captain Davis had a gun, he kind of clapped upon it.

And stuck a crooked stabbling iron upon the little end of it.

 

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The troopers, too, would gallop up and fire right in our faces,

It scared me almost half to death to see them run such races.

 

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It scared me so, I hooked right off.  Nor stopped, as I remember.

Nor turned around 'til I got home, locked up in mother's chamber.

 

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Yankee Doodle went to town, a-riding on a pony.

Stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni!

 

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