Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle went to town
A-riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy.
Father and I went down to camp
Along with Captain Gooding
And there we saw the men and boys
As thick as hasty pudding.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy
There was Captain Washington
Upon a slapping stallion
A-giving orders to his men
I guess there were a million.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy
Yankee Doodle went to town
A-riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy
Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy
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Yankee Doodle Dandy Alternative Lyrics
Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a gopher,
Bumped into a trash can and this is what fell over
40 pounds of greasy slimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meats little birdy stinky feet
French fried eyeballs rolling in a pool of mud
Gee I forgot my fork so they gave me
Ham sandwich puss on top eagle eyeballs
Camel's snot
All these things they cost a lot
So they gave me sugar with vomit on top bop.
Long Version
And then the feathers on his hat
They looked so' tarnal fin-a
I wanted pockily to get
To give to my Jemima.
Chorus
And then we saw 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
It makes a noise like father's gun
Only a nation louder.
Chorus
I went as nigh to one myself
As' Siah's underpinning
And father went as nigh agin
I thought the deuce was in him.
We saw a little barrel, too
The heads were made of leather
They knocked upon it with little clubs
And called the folks together.
Chorus
And there they'd fife away like fun
And play on cornstalk fiddles
And some had ribbons red as blood
All bound around their middles.
The troopers, too, would gallop up
And fire right in our faces
It scared me almost to death
To see them run such races.
Chorus
Uncle Sam came there to change
Some pancakes and some onions
For' lasses cake to carry home
To give his wife and young ones.
Chorus
But I can't tell half I see
They kept up such a smother
So I took my hat off, made a bow
And scampered home to mother.
Chorus
Cousin Simon grew so bold
I thought he would have cocked it
It scared me so I streaked it off
And hung by father's pocket.
Chorus
And there I saw a pumpkin shell
As big as mother's basin
And every time they touched it off
They scampered like the nation.
Other Verses:
And there was Captain Washington,
With gentlefolks about him,
They say he's gown so 'tarnal proud
He will not ride without them.
Chorus
There came Gen'ral Washington
Upon a snow-white charger
He looked as big as all outdoors
And thought that he was larger.
Chorus
Additional Version
He's a Yankee Doodle dandy,
Yankee Doodle through and through.
A real live cousin of old uncle sam born of the red,white, and blue.
He's a Yankee Doodle sweet-heart Yankee Doodle he's our boy.
Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony,
He is our Yankee Doodle boy
Information About Yankee Doodle Dandy
This is a famous song of Anglo-American origin and possibly written by Richard Shuckburgh. Today it is the state anthem of Connecticut and mostly sung as a patriotic song. However, "Yankee Doodle Dandy" dates back to before the American Revolution when British military officers would try to mock the "Yankees".
It was played by the band after the signing of the treaty of Paris after the Revolutionary War.
The first versions were played by British fife and
drummers to mock the American Colonials in the
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