The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-15
DEAR orr rANKrr DOODLE,
The Song Is seven Centuries old and Four
Grent Nations Have Owned II.

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The Song Is Seven Centuries Old ana Fovr
Great Nations Have Owned IL.
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II H. 1919 go =, JiNa.ont nas,Ss. 49,
naraiiotoI oaronr ho, ho,nnn.s 80 Tnon u
,ho ,noo ,ast onniro ~ IIn,iond "a .o 49,
Roman rotho,i, Church where n n,ob.hiy
originated somewhers about Tho vsar 200
A. d. II you happen to be a musician and do
not believe that such an undiGnined ditty ever
could nave been intended for solemn PURPOSES.
PLAY 1t 90 on a pine organ. very simply and
slowly, and as the majesty Of a grand old papai
.'io'' h''e 'Oui eou' MI So"l uouo's VIII Nah-
iSh away.
az Holland thought 20 much ~ '.yart.o
W rOm",u .,ouSn. 90 n"eh Vi ADN
vest song and made up new words for II.
Mary Names Dodpe gives ono n, the vars.. IN
"mans Brinker:"
VonLor dL1oo d,d,o aovn
MD anIo, t.nn.a.
Yankee vtver voover vown,
B,termelt und taunter.
N.l ,a . u
Noo'"' hno"e e"ac'iD "ha1 WIS verse
meant. hut the lines are interesting. because
they are primarily responsible for the word
i""Neo ~" VI ~ iani'Iiar InRhsh Ner'
sion oil Yankee Doodle"
,ooam,s nonuias NE nm a .",o "a I1A"nSs
pec"'ne ; ropu'ar among an classes IN ho'anu
that II became a truly national song. IL was
sung in livelier tire than the old chant which
It supplanted.
While the great naval war OF the sixteenth
century was in progress the English. under
Admira! Drake. caught he tune. Much to the
smr,niso - a,annhca, T.n,en 49, -. -
surprise oil everybody, England broke tho
mighty sea rower Of Holland, and when the
mOpkluH tutOulpS al the Old apDp against ta
hated authors Yankee was, understood to
mean q Bntchmnn Since the Dutch were
shhrn traders, the POPULAR meaning. OF the
Wori came 70 pc y Shrewd; hnrd' headed. un.
tfuclpus SORT ol n IeIinW: ,hollanu tnen trfed
hands mf another nation.
O,1i,na, LRninnu Gang HnrSi p words 10 I'm
dav hat ttrP tha m u puc on u91yJtenS
a at ,h ,h1 hoa ,ne It, Gtehs rrdTrlnet Que mo 2Siosd
E kiaG,s In nstsnoG 10 W Lis n an III im ! FsnS .; ostrich ad1
Sl,R marcaropin corh, lankee ioo9dle then
tie s]onrtiers :? Of The bo"stfui King composed
the famous refrain:
Yankee Doodle came to town
s, M1I' a fS SH a PG in his hat
An" Gale" II macc"roni.
The rhyme did not hold lis first popularity
and probably it would have been forgotten en-
TREY had not the old Kings son returned to
formers:had sung the tune to many nonsense
verses, which soon spread to America;
l he ueSl hn'M II VI In'Se was IfulH FlSneTt
jig which made its appearance in New.EnR-
land about the year l713. and became famous
as Il dance song. The words ran.
Lucy Lockct lost her pocket;
Lydia Fisher found it.
Not a bit ~ money in it,
only binding round 1t.
"Lu,y Lockct" was very popular till ITS.
when British regulars we're enramped ON
Boston Common and the natives If the CITY
and Surroundinp towns wtrc nrpanizipo into
c"mpanias OF minute men" under John Han.
cock. While as vet there had been no omen
war tbp fneIinp wns very hifter among tha
"ojonists who we're held in snch conten'nt Nv
the soldiers that thew were tainted with the
familiar tune 70 the words.
yankeo nnodIe com. n town
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