The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06
YANKEE DOODLE.
Ii.,sry and Word. Of the National s..s

YANKEE DOODLE.
Bisisry and Words OF the National ssas.
From the Woree,ter spyl
Yankee Doodle was a great fayorite with the
patriots OF tine revolution, for it always meant
downright patriotism. When il first came into
use IN the colonies Is not known. Some Of the
emgrants may have brought il from England.
Those who say it was learned of the Dutch at
New York or Albany are not SO wild in their
guessing as they might be. 1t has been said,
and believed, that this time was composed in
l155, by DIR. Sehackburg of the British army,
for the New England troops that fought with
the British against the French, at Niagara and
Fontenae. 1t may or it may not he true, that be
brought it to the attention of the New England
ers at that time; but it is certain that he did
not compose it. 1t was known in England in
the time of Charles First and, in the time of
the second Charles it was used for song on
become nursery song:
Lucy Lockett lost her pocket,
Kitty Fisher found il;
Nothing in Il, nothing in It,
But the binding round u, ete.
In times not mnch later, the English had n
ankee Doodle in Kent, and sang the tune to a
popular song which began thus:
Yankee d oodle came to town
Upon KeDtsh pony
He stuck a feather in his hat,
And called him MacaronL
Evart A Duyckinck, after considerable inves-
tigatiOn, suggested that the tune came originally
from Holland, and referred to an old Dutch har-
vest song, which has this refrain:
b. Yanker didle doedel down, -#rg
Ddel dndsl lantsr, y
FaIks viEsr, vooysr yovn, 1875
tt. Botsrmik and Tsnther. lt5I-
The pay of the harvesters was buttermilk for
drink and one-tenth of the grain they harvested
Hence, the last line of the chorus, which means
"buttermilk and TENTH" This old song, with
it's tune, our Yankee Doodle, has been current in
Holland and the Low Countries from slime inn
memorial There is good reason for believing
the tune originated there. 1t is manifest that
our Yankee Doodle was originally and anciently
q Dutchman, a jolly gentleman of the Low C0un-
tries, who came to Us through England, was
gladly naturalized, and at length advanced to
high hOnors. In the time of the Revolution the
song for which yankee Doodle" was most used,
may have been first written as burlesque, and
then revised with more genial aim. 1t has
come down to us In the following FORM with the
accompaniment of several 'fvarious readings. I"
The chorus mnst, of course, be sung after each
stanza:
YANKEE DOODLE AT THE CAMP.
Father and went down to camp
Along with Captain Gooding
And there see the men and bows
As thick as hasty pudding
Yankee Doodle keep il M
Yankee Doodle, Dandy,
Mind the music keep the stem
And with the girls be handy
ana mere we see thousand men,
As men Is squire paSldi
ANA whAt they wasted every day,
wish II could be saved.
The lasses eaten there, each day Cd -r
Woud keep an house Winter; ~. ~ IT..
They have 80 much, that I'll be bound
They eat when they re a mind to-
And there we see a swapping gun
Large as n log of maple
Upon a deuced little cart,
load for fathers cattle.
And every time they shoot il of.
1t takes a horn of powder.
And makes noise like fathers gun,
Only a nation louder.
went as uigb To one nvs,lf
As Siah's npdrrpinning.
And father went as nigb AGAIN
L Thought the leuca Wa In him