Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-05-16

Songs and Some -Writers.---1i.

sOugS anu -WrlterS.---If,
"YANKEE Common and
homely as is this tune, we must not ,lisparage
II, Tor 1t has associations which will always
render It's simple melody dearer to the
hearts OF the American people than ever
can become the most elaborate compositions
OF ancient or modern times, be they ever so
scientific. The tune is Lot American, il
was given to us by an enemy, but our SOL
diers adopted it, and became as proud Of il
as did the Pilgrims of the nsme Puritan
which was AT first bestowed upon them in
ridicule. Yankee Doodle first fell upon
American ears " in times that tried mems
souls;;' it was The tune wanted; it became
at once the national air, and as slch has
continued. Whenever our free institutions
have been in danger. whether from "malce
domestic or foreign levy" Yankee Doodle
has been The tune to which American pat
riotism has kept step. Every American
soldier has know il, and the soldiers vet
unborn will hear it and learn its history
We must always preserve it, and never be
ashamed of it. The time will come when
we may have something more worthy Of
being called a national datte,s something
which shall combine an acknowledgment
of God with the glorious memories of wise
and brave men--which shall blend the emo
tons of piety and patriotism, uniting in
sweet accord the praises of the Author Of
our Freedom and Independence, with those
of His chosen and commissioned human in
sii uments, in strain worthy to commemo-
rate the rise and progress of our Great
Republic.
The "original song" (words adopted to
this tune,) SO far as Americans are concern
ed was written, it is supposed il the spring
of l775, after the skirmishes at Lexington
and Concord, and was called
THE YANKEES RETURN FROM CAMP.
Father and down to camp,
Along With Captain Gooding,
And there the and boys
AS thick hasty pudding
Cher@.-Yankee Doodle keep 1t up,
Yankee Doodle, DADDY,
Mind the music and the step,
And Nish the girls be handy,
And there we see a thousand men
As rich Squire Dayid;
And what they wasted every day,
wish it could be saved.
The lasses they eat every day,
Would keep our house a winter;
They have a mnch that IN be bound
They eat 1t When they'er mind tef.
And there we saw a swamping gun,
Large a log Of maple,
Upon 1euced little cart,
A load for fathers cattle
And every time they shoot it Of,
It takes horn Of powder,
And makes noise like fathers gum
Only nation louder.
went as nigh to ono myself
As saas underiinnng;
As father went as nigh again
Thought the derce In him.
Cousin Simeon grew so bold
thought he would have cockeIit;
1t scared 50 / shrnkt it OF
And hung by fathers pocket
And Captain Davis had gum
lie kind Of elapt his hand ont,
And stuck a crooked stabbing iron
Upon the little end ONT
And there l pumpkin shell
As big as mothers baSiu
Ard every time they touched II OF
They scampered like the nation.
see a little barrel, too,
The heads made Of leather.
They knockd upon it with little clubs
And called th5 folks together.
And there Captain Washington,
And gentle folks about him;
They say he's grown SO tarnal proud
lie will not hide without em.
lie got him 10 his meetin' clothes
Upon snpping stallion
lie set the world along in
In hundreds aud u millions
The flaming ribbons ia his hat
They looked so tearing dne, all,
wanted pokily to get
10 give to my Jemimah
/ see another snarl Of men,
A digging graves, they told me,
So tarnal long. tarnal deep
They tended they shoull hold me-
IT scared me so, hook'd it off,
Nor stopped, as / remember
Nor turned about till got home,
Loekd up in mothers chamber
At this late day, when so many different
accounts of the origin of Yankee Doodle