Yankee Doodle

Yankee Doodle went to town 

Riding on a 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. 

Father and I went down to camp, 

Along with Captain Gooding, 

And there we saw the men and boys 

As thick as hasty pudding.

And there we saw a thousand men

As rich as Squire David,

And what they wasted every day,

I wish it could be saved.

The 'lasses they eat every day,

Would keep a house a winter;

They have so much, that I'll be bound,

They eat it when they've a mind to.

And there I see a swamping gun

Large as a log of maple,

Upon a deuced little cart,

A load for father's cattle.

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.

~ Anonymous