Yankee Doodle

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Father and I went down to camp,

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Along with Captain Gooding;

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And there we saw the men and boys,

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As thick as hasty pudding.

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Yankee doodle, keep it up,

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Yankee doodle dandy;

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Mind the music and the step,

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And with the girls be handy.

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There was Captain Washington

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Upon a slapping stallion,

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A-giving orders to his men,

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I guess there was a million.

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And then the feathers on his hat,

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They looked so' tarnal fin-a,

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I wanted pockily to get

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To give to my Jemima.

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And then we saw a swamping gun,

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Large as a log of maple;

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Upon a deuced little cart,

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A load for father's cattle.

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And every time they shoot it off,

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It takes a horn of powder;

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It makes a noise like father's gun,

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Only a nation louder.

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I went as nigh to one myself,

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As' Siah's underpinning;

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And father went as nigh agin,

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I thought the deuce was in him.

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We saw a little barrel, too,

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The heads were made of leather;

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They knocked upon it with little clubs,

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And called the folks together.

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And there they'd fife away like fun,

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And play on cornstalk fiddles,

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And some had ribbons red as blood,

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All bound around their middles.

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The troopers, too, would gallop up

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And fire right in our faces;

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It scared me almost to death

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To see them run such races.

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Uncle Sam came there to change

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Some pancakes and some onions,

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For' lasses cake to carry home

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To give his wife and young ones.

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