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The lyrics that George Washington probably heard sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle" are not the words now known around the world. The earliest known appearance of the common words relating to "pony, feather, and macaroni" is in James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England. 1 No earlier reference to these lyrics has been found.
Yankee Doodle" is a traditional song and nursery rhyme, the early versions of which predate the Seven Years' War and American Revolutionary War. It is often sung patriotically in the United States today.
Yankee Doodle Lyrics: Father and I went down to eamp / Along with Captain Gooding; / And there we saw the men and boys / As thiek as hasty pudding / Yankee doodle, keep it up / Yankee...
The “Yankee Doodle” tune was already well known by the 1750s. But tradition says that in 1755 a British doctor named Richard Schuckburg penned new words to mock his American allies. He portrayed the colonists as rude, crude, and cowardly.
Of humble origin and perhaps questionable in matters of lyrical "taste," "Yankee Doodle" has survived as one of America's most upbeat and humorous national airs. In the fife and drum state of Connecticut, it is the official state song.
Jan 4, 2001 · Totally separate from all this is the song “Yankee Doodle Dandy” by George M. Cohan (sung and danced wonderfully by Jimmy Cagney in the movie of the same name). The song is a takeoff on the original “Yankee Doodle” and features the well-known verse:
‘Yankee Doodle’ is a short poem that describes a man, someone called Yankee Doodle, and his actions. The man rides into town on a horse and sports a feather in his hat. The nonsensical-seeming moment of this poem comes when the speaker says the man called his feather “macaroni.”
