יאנקי דודל
מילות השיר

להלן הבית הראשון והפזמון, המוכרים והמושרים של השיר.
קיימים עוד בתי-שיר רבים, בגרסאות שונות.
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 תרגום לעברית יאנקי דודל בא לעיר   רוכב לו על הפוני   כך עם נוצה בכובעו   מגדיר זאת "אלגנטי"     פזמון:   יאנקי דודל, המשך כך   יאנקי דודל יופי   שים לב לקצב ולצעד   והיה נדיב לליידי:   אנגלית בית ראשון: Yankee Doodle went to town,   Upon a little pony;   He stuck a feather in his cap,   And called it macaroni.     Chorus:   Yankee Doodle keep it up,   Yankee Doodle dandy,   Mind the music and the step,   And with the girls be handy.   הגרסה המקוצרת: Yankee Doodle went to town   Upon a little pony,   Stuck a feather in his cap   And called it macaroni'.     Chorus:   Yankee Doodle keep it up,   Yankee Doodle dandy,   Mind the music and the step,   And with the girls be handy.   Fath'r and I went down to camp,   Along with Captain Gooding,   And there we saw the men and boys   As thick as hasty pudding.     Chorus   And there was Cap'n Washington,   And gentle folks about him;   They say he's grown so 'tarnal proud   He will not ride without em'.     Chorus   הגרסה המלאה: Yankee Doodle went to town   Upon a little pony,   Stuck a feather in his cap   And called it macaroni'.     Chorus:   Yankee Doodle keep it up,   Yankee Doodle dandy,   Mind the music and the step,   And with the girls be handy.   Fath'r and I went down to camp,   Along with Captain Gooding,   And there we saw the men and boys   As thick as hasty pudding.     Chorus   And there we saw a thousand men   As rich as Squire David,   And what they wasted every day,   I wish it could be saved.     Chorus   The 'lasses they eat it every day,   Would keep a house a winter;   They have so much, that I'll be bound,   They eat it when they've mind ter.     Chorus   And there I see a swamping gun   Large as a log of maple,   Upon a deuced little cart,   A load for father's cattle.     Chorus   And every time they shoot it off,   It takes a horn of powder,   and makes a noise like father's gun,   Only a nation louder.     Chorus   I went as nigh to one myself   As 'Siah's inderpinning;   And father went as nigh again,   I thought the deuce was in him.     Chorus   Cousin Simon grew so bold,   I thought he would have cocked it;   It scared me so I shrinked it off   And hung by father's pocket.     Chorus   And Cap'n Davis had a gun,   He kind of clapt his hand on't   And stuck a crooked stabbing iron   Upon the little end on't     Chorus   And there I see a pumpkin shell   As big as mother's bason,   And every time they touched it off   They scampered like the nation.     Chorus   I see a little barrel too,   The heads were made of leather;   They knocked on it with little clubs   And called the folks together.     Chorus   And there was Cap'n Washington,   And gentle folks about him;   They say he's grown so 'tarnal proud   He will not ride without em'.     Chorus   He got him on his meeting clothes,   Upon a slapping stallion;   He sat the world along in rows,   In hundreds and in millions.     Chorus   The flaming ribbons in his hat,   They looked so tearing fine, ah,   I wanted dreadfully to get   To give to my Jemima.     Chorus   I see another snarl of men   A digging graves they told me,   So 'tarnal long, so 'tarnal deep,   They 'tended they should hold me.     Chorus It scared me so, I hooked it off,   Nor stopped, as I remember,   Nor turned about till I got home,   Locked up in mother's chamber.     Chorus