The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-07-04
patriotit Songs.
YANKEE DOODLE.

YANKEE DOODLE.
Father and went down to camp,
Along with Captain Goodwin.
And there we saw the men and boys,
As thick as hasty pudding.
cHORUs.--Yankee Doodle keep il up,
Yankee doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy,
And there was Captain Washington,
Upon a slapping stallion,
\ giving orders to his men;
lguess there was million.
Chorus. Yankee Doodle, &c.
And then the feathers on his hat,
They look'd so tarnal iiney.
wanted peskily to get
TO give to my Jemima.
Chorus. Yankee Doodle, &c.
And there they had swamping gun,
As big as log Of maple.
On deuced little cart
A load for fathers cattle.
Chorus. Yankee Doodle, &c.
And every time they fired it off
lttook horn of powder;
1t made noise like fathers gun,
Only nation louder
Chorus.-Yankee Doodle. &c.
! went as near to it myself
As Jacobs underpinin',
And father went as near again:
thought the deuce was in him.
Chorus.-Yankee Doodle, &c.
And there see little keg,
Its heads were made Of leather,
They knock upon it with little sticks
To call the'fqlks together
Chorus. Yankee Doodle, &c.
And there they d fife away like fun,
And play on cornstalk fddles,
And some had ribbons red as blood
All bound around their middles.
Chorus Yankee Doodle, &c.
The troopers, too, would gallop up.
And FIRE right in our faces:
Il scared me almost half to death
10 see them run such races.
Chorus. Yankee Doodle, &c.
Uncle Sam came there to change
SONG pancakes aud some onions,
For lasses-cakes to carry home
To give his wife and young ones.
Chorus Yankee Doodle, &c.
But cant tell you half see,
They kept up such a smother;
So took my hat off, made how,
And scamper'd d home to mother.
Chorus. Yankee Doodle, &c.
The following is received as the tru
istory of Yankee Doodle: In 1855 sin
Iltaneous attacks were made upon tn
french posts in America. That again.
'ort Du Quesne (the present site of Pitt.
urg) was conducted by General Brat
ock and those against Niagara an
'rontenac, by Governor Shirley, of Mas
nd General johnson of New York. Th
rmy of Shirley and johnson, during tn
of 1855, lay on the eastern ban
E the Hudson, little south of the cit
f Albany. In the early part of June tn
roops Of the eastern provinces began t
our in, company after company and sue
motley assembly of men never befor
hronged together on such an occasion
nless an example may be found in tn
agged regiment Of Sir John Falstaf.
Tould have relaxed the gravity of an an
horite to have seen the descendants O
he Puritans marching through the street
4 that ancient city, albany, and takin
heir situations to the left Of the Britis
rmy, some with long coats, some wit
hort coats, and Others with no coats q
II, with colors as varied as the rainbow
ONE with their hair cropped like the arm
{ Cromwell, and others with wigs, tn
,cks of which foated with grace aroun
heir shoulders. Their march, their ac
outrements, and the whole arrangement
{ the troops furnished matter of amuse
lent to the rest Of the British army. Tn
iusic played the airs of two centuries age
nd the tom ensemble. upon the whole, ex
ibited a sight to the wondering stranger
D which they had been unaccustomed
among the club of wits that belonged t
he British army there was a DIR. Shack
urg, attached to the staff, who combine,
18th the science of a surgeon the skill an,
llents Of a musician. To please the ne,
omers he composed tune, and witt
lnch' gravity recommended il TO the off
rrs ~ one Of the most celebrated airs o
lartial music.
The joke took, to the no small amase
tent Of the British Brother Jonathan
reclaimed it was nation fine, and in fey
nys nothing was heard in the provincial
imp but the air Of Yankee Doodle. Lit
G did the author, in his composition, thel
oppose that an air made for the purpos,
leyity aud ridicule should be marke,
n such high destinies, In twenty year
ON that time the national march inspired
he heroes of Bunker's Hill, and, in les,
lan thirty, Lord Corvallis and his arm,
Iarched into the American lines 10 the
lne Of Yankee Doodle.
This tune, however, was not origina
ith DIR. Shaekburg, He made It from al
d song which can be traced back to the
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