Smyrna times., 1870-03-16
Two National Songs.

hearing OF the authorities. When the Jacob Il
ties spoke or sang of " the king" they meant r
= the king over the water" and the words /
still sung, e" Send HIM victorious. imply clear Ii
y that the king intended was not the one who a
was already in England, but the one far away, i
TO whom the singers were loyal in his evil for t
tunes. A great deal Of controversy has arisen t
as to the authorship alike of the words and '
music; but no satisfactory clue has been dis /
discovered for the elucdation Ofeither mystery. 4
II prize had been offered for 4 national an l
them, expressive Of patriotic as well as dynaS- i
tic loyalty no competent critics would have |
awarded it to the author Of the words, whom ;
soeyer he may have been. Yet this song, which ;
grew rather than was made. is the richest lit
erary jewel in the British crown, and may {
fairly claim to have been of more value to the
House OF Hanover than any standing army.
God save the King, as originally sung at
Drury Lane Theatre, shortly after the news ar
rived in London that the last hopes of the
young Pretcnder had been crushed at Culloden,
consisted of nine stanZas, or six in addition to
the three which are now familiar to ali Of US.
These three are the genuine Jacobite song,
without the alteration Of a word The remain
ing six were strictly Iianoverian and Wiggish,
and have long since gone to the limbo that is
reserved for all literary rubbish 4 specimen
verse will suffice to show alike its quality and .
its temporary purpose:
"Coniounl tall Jenny plot.
Pope, Frcuc. ana spanish not.
Couiound them all:
Williams notorious,
Their fears inglorlous,
Never shall conquer Us,
Coniound them all
1t was a fortunate accident. if it were not
profound piece of policy, by which the present
royal house took possession of the song Of their
enemies, and turned to their own glory that
which was intended for their shame
The origin Of Yankee Doodle is about as
| mysterious Nobody knows its authorship,
but almost every body knows its value to the
American people, and how well the air express
eS their buOyant and aggressive spirit of nation
ality. The words, Yankee Doodle or 4" Daw-
die, according to some etymoogists, seem to
! have been originally employed as term Of con-
/ tempt by the English toward the Americans,
| in the days Immediately preceding the Great
/ Revolution, which eliminated in the indepcnd-
cnce Of the United States. Others, again,
claim that the words are a corruption of an old
! Irish song called "Nunkie.' or Cnkle Doc
die, written in dersioE of Oliver Cromwell,
when he was carrying fire and sword through
that unhappy country while third set Of men,
claiming to be learnd in dcrivations, assert, on
the authority of O. Bren, the historian of the
Round Towers Of Ireland, that Yankee Doodle
is "a perveraion Of two Persian words "Yanki
Doouiah, signiiying the New World" 1t
seems, on the authority of the late Mr.. T..
Moncrietf, the author Of "Tom and Jerry,
and countless other farces and plays, who made
it his pleasure in the closing years Of his life,
when afflicted with blindness. to investigate the
history and origin Of Old tunes that the air was
5 composed for the drum and fife, about the
middle Of the eighteenth century. by the fife.
t major of the Grenadier Guards. The air was
not intended for song, but tor a march, and
e it was long after it had become familiar to the
D ears Of the people in towns where British regi
r mentS were stationed that words became aSso.
e ciated with it. Probably" says Mr. Mon
j Grief, Z" the first person who brought about the
n alliance between the air and the rhymes was
= nurse -mad-fond of military display, as the
: nurs. maids Of a hundred and twenty year!
!. ago were as well as those Of our own day
: Yankee Doodle came to town
|. On Kentish pony,
:, lie stuck feather in his hat
: And called him Maccaron"
IS The word " Maccaroni in this well-know
nursery ditty suggests the period of the com
4 position to have been between 1850 and l77C
lie or thereabOuts, when, according to GrOse, i
~ his " Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" ther
er was clubin London called THE Maccaroni
OF composed of gentlemen who had made til
IS grand tour, and we're fond of Italian cookery
rt These gentlemen were the "swelis" of the pc
ut riod, and prided themselves on the fashio
he and elegance of their dress. Hence a persO
Q, foppishly dressed and in the extreme of til
So fashion was called Maccaroni. The stol
or of the adoption of the air by the American
lg has been told in various ways. The BIRTHS
u soldiers in America had, it appears, a song
ID this tune during the war OF Independence, {
which the following stanzas-very poor dogge1
m ell indeed-are specimens:
" "There was Captain Washington.
'o' Upon sappng stallion,
II, A-gvirg orders TO his men,
n l guess there was a million"
IS; "And then the feathers in his cap,
1g They looked so arnal lne-a;
d. wanted peSkily TO got
he And give 'em to Jemima."
On When the British troops under the Maruu
ne of CORVALLIS were defeated by the American
ng and on their surrender were allowed to ret
en- through the American lines, with their arm
n, reversed, the Americans III unconscious i'm
he imitation Of the tactics of the House of Han
of yer. borrowed tune from their foes, and struC
'ss up Yankee Doodle, as a taunt in the hour
ne victory; and made it national, then and fl
he evcrmore.
in CONSTITUTIONAL the funeral services of
We prominent and very worthy citizen of NOrtheI
in New York the clergymen followed that vel
nd questionable old fashion of especially addreS
nd ing the mourners In the consolation admin
ny tered to the widow he said: ''One word
of you, dear woman. Infinitely better for you
ire sit and sorrow by such pure and true man
,rs grave than to have living husband by yo,
:" side, false to God and false to his marrial
wn vows" That reminds us of the funeral of
Of child years ago in that same town, on whiC
he occasion the clergymen offered consolation
ng the stricken mother by recalling an incidel
es- that had occurred In his experience. "A CHI