Yankee Doodle went to town
A-riding on a pony,
Stuck a feather in his cap

And called it macaroni'.
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Yankee Doodle keep it up,

Yankee Doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
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.
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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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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.
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And there I see a swamping gun
Large as a log of maple,
Upon a deuced little cart,

A load for father's cattle.
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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.

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I went as nigh to one myself
As 'Siah's inderpinning;

And father went as nigh again,
I thought the deuce was in him.
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Cousin Simon grew so bold,
I thought he would have @@#!ed it;
It scared me so I shrinked it off

And hung by father's pocket.
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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

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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.
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I see a little barrel too,
The heads were made of leather;
They knocked on it with little clubs

And called the folks together.
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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'.

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He got him on his meeting clothes,
Upon a slapping stallion;

He sat the world along in rows,
In hundreds and in millions.
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The flaming ribbons in his hat,
They looked so tearing fine, ah,
I wanted dreadfully to get

To give to my Jemima.
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I see another snarl of men

A digging graves they told me,
So 'tarnal long, so 'tarnal deep,
They 'tended they should hold me.
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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.