Folk Song Yankee Doodle Dandy Lyrics

Yankee Doodle Dandy Lyrics

1. Father and I went down to camp,

Along with Captain Gooding;

And
there we saw the men and boys,

As thick as hasty pudding. 

Yankee
doodle, keep it up,

Yankee doodle dandy;

Mind the music and the
step,

And with the girls be handy. 



2. There was Captain
Washington

Upon a slapping stallion,

A-giving orders to his men,

I guess there was a million. 



3. And then the feathers on his
hat,

They looked so' tarnal fin-a,

I wanted pockily to get

To
give to my Jemima. 



4. And then we saw a swamping gun,

Large
as a log of maple;

Upon a deuced little cart,

A load for father's
cattle. 



5. And every time they shoot it off,

It takes a
horn of powder;

It makes a noise like father's gun,

Only a nation
louder. 



6. I went as nigh to one myself,

As' Siah's
underpinning;

And father went as nigh agin,

I thought the deuce was
in him. 



7. We saw a little barrel, too,

The heads were made
of leather;

They knocked upon it with little clubs,

And called the
folks together. 



8. And there they'd fife away like fun,

And
play on cornstalk fiddles,

And some had ribbons red as blood,

All
bound around their middles. 



9. The troopers, too, would gallop
up

And fire right in our faces;

It scared me almost to death

To see them run such races. 



10. Uncle Sam came there to
change

Some pancakes and some onions,

For' lasses cake to carry
home

To give his wife and young ones. 



11. But I can't tell
half I see

They kept up such a smother;

So I took my hat off, made
a bow,

And scampered home to mother. 



12. Cousin Simon grew
so bold,

I thought he would have cocked it;-