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Yankee Doodle
Written by Richard Shuckburgh
The first 2 stanzas are the most common & best known parts of the song
Complete lyrics:
Yankee Doodle went to town
A-riding on a pony,
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni'.
Chorus:
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
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.
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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. |
The oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence was Benjamin Franklin who was 70. The youngest was Edward Rutledge at 26 years old.
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