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YANKEE DOODLE

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Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a po - ny
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Stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni

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Yankee Doodle keep it up Yankee Doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step and with the girls be handy


Father and I went down to camp along with Captain Gooding
There we saw the men and boys as thick as hasty pudding
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And there was Captain Washington upon a slapping stallion
A giving orders to his men I guess there was a million
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And then the feathers on his hat they looked so very fine-a
I wanted peskily to get to give to my Jemima
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There I see a swamping gun large as a log of maple
Upon a mighty little cart a load for father’s cattle
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And every time they fired it off it took a horn of powder
It made a noise like fathers gun only a nation louder
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And there I see a little keg it’s head all made of leather
They knocked upon’t with little sticks to call the folks together
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And Captain Davis had a gun he kinda clap’t his hand on’t
And stuck a crooked stabbing iron upon the crooked end on’t 
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The troopers too would gallop up and fire right in our faces
It scared me almost half to death to see them run such races
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It scared me so I hooked it off nor stooped as I remember
Nor turned about till I got home locked up in mothers chamber
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