Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-03-07

The "Tsa Patio" was got up by the "womer
folkes" exclusively. The "menn fOlkes" had NJ
parte or lot in its management. But could thi
'old mann" have had "a finger in the pye," h'
would have advised Uor such centennial occa
sion,) greater share on the programme, OF Ger
tain National Songs, "a of the olden TYNE.
,ome of which relate to the Revolutionary perioc
and are older than the present century. Take tht
as specimen. TWAS composed in l19s
in time of the elder Adams administration by thu
entitled adams and Liberty" 1t was sung il
one of the most majestic Of airs, 'To Anacreon il
Heaven" Here is the first verse with chorus at
tached to each of the s,anzas
ADAMS AND LIBERTY.
Let Fame to the world sound Americas voice,
No intrigue from her sons, shall her government
sever;
Her pride is her ADAMS, his laws and are choice
And shall flourish till liberty slumber forever.
unite heart and hand like Leoni
das' band,
And swear by the God of the ocean and Land,
That ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves,
While the earth bears plant, or the rolls hel
waves.
Had also that famous "Worldle Songe" com
posed by the loyallst surgeon DR.. Shacksbury, in
l775 whilst the American Army under Washing
ION WAS encamped il ridge-designed &c
ridlcuie the 1ankee green hOrns,-a ballad always
sented upon the stage, it would have added hu l.
morous zest very desirable to the entertayn-
ments. 1t may be worth repeating here. Such
ode TYNE effusions should not pass into oblivion
1t is entitled,
THE YANKEE's RETURN FROM CAMP.
Fathern l went down to camp
Along with Captain Gooding
And there we see the men and boys
As thick as hasty pudding.
Chorus-Yankee doodle keep it up,
Yankee doodle dandy,
Mind the musick and the step
And with the gals be handy!
And there we see thousand men
As rich as Squire David
And what they wasted every day,
wish it could be saved.
Yankee doodle keep it up, &C.
The 'lasses they eat every day
Would keep an house a winter;
They have as much that, I'll be bound,
They eat it when they're mind to.
Yankee doodle keep itup, &C.
And there we see swamping gun,
Large as q log of maple,
Upon deuced little cart,
A load for fathers cattle,
Yankee doodle keep it up, &C.
And every time they shoot it off,
1t takes horn of powder,
And makes a noise like fathers gun,
Only nation louder.
Yankee doodle keep it up, &C.
l went as nigh to one myself
As Slabs underpinning,
And father went as nigh agin,
tho't the deuce was in him.
Yankee doodle keep it up, &c,
Cousin Simon grew so bold
thot he would have cooked it,
1t scared me so shrink it Off
And hung by fathers pocket
Yankee doodle keep it up, &c.
And Captn Davis had gun,
He kind o'clapt his hand ont
And stuck a crooked stabbing iron
Upon the little eend ont.
Yankee doodle keep it up, &C.
And there see pumpkin SHE'LL
AS big as mothers basin;
And every time they touched it off
They scamper'd like the nation.
Yankee doodle keep it up. SC.
I see little barrel, too,
The heads were made of leather,
They knock'd upon t with little clubs,
And called the folks together.
Yankee doodle keep it up, &C.
And there was Captain WASHINGTON,
And gentefoks about him,
They say he's grown so tarnal proud,
He will not ride without EN-.
Yankee doodle keep it up, &c.
He got him on his meeting clothes,
Upon Swapping stallion
He set the world along in rows
In hundreds and in millions.
Yankee doodle keep it up, &c.
The flaming ribbons in bis hat,
They looked so taring fine, ali,
wanted peskily to get
To give to my Jemima.
Yankee doodle keep it up, &C.
see another snsrl of men.
diggin graves, they told me,
So tarnal long, so tarnal deep,
They tended they should hold me.
Yankee doodle keep it up, SC.
1t scar'd me so, hook'd 1t of,
Nor stopped, as remember,
Nor turned about till got home,
Lock'd up in mothers chamber.
Chorus-Yankee doodle keep it up,
Yankee doodle dandy,
Mind the musick and the step,
And with the gals be handy.
The entertainment of the second evening wa
rendered specially interesting by the grammar
school childrens centennial PLAY, which was ad
mirably performed. 1t would have added to tn,
pleasure Of the occasion had the following oldt
'W orldle SOnge" been sung by some Of thu
'menn tolkes":
SCHOOLS OF Ye OLDEN TINE.
The schools-the schools of other days!
These were the schools for me!
When. in frock and trousers dressed
learned my A. B. c.
When, with my dinner in my hat,
trudg'd away to school;
Nor dard to stop as boys do now
For school ma'a had rule!
With locks we'll combed and face so clean,
Boys washd their faces then)
And a "stick horse" to ride UPON
What happy little men!
And if a traveller we met,
We threw no sticks or stones.
To fright the horses as they passed,