Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-05
From Punch,
Tall DOin's.

AR-"Yankee Doodle"
Yankee Doodle had a time,
When his load of taxes,
Was as a feather to the ton
That on British backs is.
Yankee Doodle didn't know
When his bread was buttered,
So, Stripe with Star, he went to war,
And paper-money money uttered.
Yankee Doodle-do is done,
Yankee Doodle dandy;
Here's Mr.. Chase in bankrupt case,
And finds your dollars handy!
Quoth Yankee Doodle, "Guess Pm used
To live upon sensation
Darned if this war of mine shan't whip
All wars fit since creation.
I'll hev the biggest heaps O men,
The biggest muffs of Kernels,
The biggest guns, and biggest runs,
And biggest lynn journals.
Yankee Doodle, sc.
any victories shall the biggest be
Upon the rolls of glory;
Ny hoggins-when I'm own Pm logged
Shall whip all told in story.
What's done in the contractin' line,
In the Old World shall dwindle,
Before each hundred horsepower job
And catawampous swindlel
Yankee Doodle, &c.
Though not yet clear which stump I'll take,
That stump shall be colossal,
Whether I'm Slavery's advocate,
Or Liberty's Apostle.
If l conclude to free the Blacks
By cash-emancipation,
Guess I'll run up the biggest bill
That e'er Knocked liquidationl
Yankee Doodle, sc.
'Eor payin' out what's been ped in,
/ guess it will be funny
If l don't make the biggest ducks
And brakes e'er made with money.
And last of all, I'll hev a debt
On the same scale gigantic,
To which mean Old World debts shall be
Slop-bowls to the Atlantic.
Yankee Doodle, &c.
Sand since to pay this monster debt
The taxes must be heavy;
/ guess I'll raise the biggest lot,
A Guv'ment e'er did levy.
Twill prove that mines the biggest purse,
And beats the British boiler
And that of all the guv'ments known,
Mine has the biggest swaller.
Yankee Doodle, &c.
II guess i mean to tax myself
In every jot and title,
OF all | eat, and drink and wear,
And all / chew and white.
In -four and sperrits, ale and wine;
In oils and in tobacckers;
In paper, gas, salt, soap and skins,
And meal and malt and crackers.
Yankee Doodle, &c.
1.-The leather that I walk upon
The upper and the under
The electric fluid in the wires,
Guess / can't ketch the thunder),
Each passenger that takes the cars,
Each bus that runs the tram-roads,
Advertisement and steamboats, too,
And guns,-locks, stocks and ramrods.
Yankee Doodle, &c.
"There's not a billiard-ball shall spin,
But into Guv'ment's pockets,
No draughts or pill cure human i'll
Without the Guv'ment dockets.
All carriages taxed-carts shall be,
Watches 90 tick for taxes:
And messages shall pay-both eendst
Who answers and who axes.
Yankee Doodle, &c.
"No banker shall shin-plaster make,
No pediar cheat the farmers,
No liquor store shall sell its drains,
No theatre its drarmers;
No rider spring round circus-ring,
No bowling alley roll up,
But shall to Guv'ment needs help bring
The tottle of the whole up.
Yankee Doodle, &c.
Sand Mhen they've piled the biggest pile
OF taxes ever heerd on,
Upon our backs, wei scorny AK,
is this what Guv'mens skeered IN !?
For if the loads the biggest load
Since taxes first invention,
/ guess this backs the biggest back
That History can mentioni
Yantee Doodle, &c.
"Although in arts of war and peace
John Bull is my inferior;
Till now in taxes and in debts
I've owned him my superior.
But now my taxes reach a pint
At which he stands dumfoundeerd;
| NV debt, in one years, growed as big
AS his in half a hundredl
Yankee Doodle, &c"
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The IRox PLATED FxvEn IN EURoPE.-The
following is from the Paris correspondent of the
London Morning Post: ~
From all quarters of Europe we hear Of moth
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iron Fight in the American waters, and most Gov
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