The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-07-12

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wish it could be saved.
The 'lasses they eat every day,
Would keep our house winter,
They have as much that I'll be bound,
They eat it when they're mind ter.
And there we see a swapping gun,
Large as log of maple,
Upon deuced little cart,
A load for fathers cattle.
And every time they shoot it off,
1t takes horn of powder,
And makes noise like fathers gun,
Only nation louder.
went as nigh to one myself
AS Siah's underpinning;
And father went as nigh again
thought the deuce was ia him.
Cousin Simon grew so bold,
thought he would have cooked it;
1t scared me so l shrnk't it off
And hung by fathers pocket.
And Captain Davis had gun,
He kind of clapt his hand ont,
And stuck a crooked stabbiDg iron
Upon the little end ont.
And there see pumpkin shell
AS big as mothers basin;
And every time they touched it oil
They scampered like the nation.
see little barrel, too,
The heads were made Ofleather,
They knOck'd upOn't with little clubs,
And called the folks together.
And there was Captain Washington,
And gentlefolks about him;
They say he's grown so tarnal proud
He will not ride without 'em.
He got him in his meeting clothes
Upon slapping stallion;
He set the world along in rows
In hundreds and il millions.
The flaming ribbons in his hat,
They looked so tearing fine, all,
wanted pokily to get
To give to my jeremiah.
see another snarl of men,
A digging graves they told me,
So tarnal long, so tarnal deep,
They tended they should hold me.
1t scared me so, hooked it of,
Nor stopped, as remember,
Nor turned about till got home,
Locked up in mothers chamber.
In Farmer and Moore's Collections,
. istorical and Miscellaneous, and Monthly
Literary Journal" for April, 1924, l find a
new version of this song, with some stanzas
not fonnd in the original. They are evil
lently interpretations. give specimen or
two:
And then they'd fife away like fun,
And play on cOrnstalk hddles,
And some had ribbons, red as blood
All round about their middles.
The troopers, too, would gallop up,
And fire right in our faces
1t almost scared me halt to death
To see them run such races.
Old Uncle Sam came there to change
Some pancakes and some onions,
For 'lasses cake to carry home
And give his wife and young ones.
But can't tell you half see
They kept up such smother;
So took my hat of-made bow,
And scamDered home to mother.
A little while before the battle of Lex.
ington, the British (who had used the tune
as one of their military airs at Castle Will.
liam, in Boston Harbor, as early as 1863
had a song in reference to the Americans
near Boston, who were secretly procuring
arms in that city, then occupied by royal
troops. The following verse is preserved ::
Yankee Doodle came to town
For to buy fire-lOck;
We will tar and feather him,
And SO we will John Hancock.
A writer in the New York Euening
Post, few years ago, claimed for the Dutch
the origin of yankee Doodle" He said
that the harvest laborers who, in summer,
migrate from Germany to the low coun-
tries, or Holland, where they receive as
mush buttermilk as they can drink, and a
tenth of the grain secured by their exer.
tons, had song, with the following
chorus
Tanker didel, doodle down,
Didel, dudel janter,
Yakee, viver, voover vown,
Botermilk and Tanther.
This account is apechryphal, to say the
least, for the words in the above verse are
neither German, Dutch, nor any other lam
guage on the face of the earth.
Onr USnuthprn hrethren" who have q