The song YANKEE'S RETURN FROM CAMP
Article #1 (35 is last): Newsgroups: freenet.shrine.songs From: aa001 (Thomas Grundner) Subject: Yankee's Return Date: Tue, 23 Jan 90 22:12:37 EST
THE YANKEE'S RETURN FROM CAMP (song from Revolutionary War era)
Father and I went down to camp Along with Captain Gooding There we see 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
And there we see a thousand men As rich as Squire David And what they wasted every day I wish it could be saved
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
The m'lasses they eat every day Would keep an house a winter They have as much that I'll be bound They eat it when they're amind to
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
And there we see a swamping gun Large as a log of maple Upon a duced little cart A load for father's cattle
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
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
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
I went as nigh to one myself As 'Siah's under-pinning And father went as nigh again I thought the duce was in him
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
Cousin Simon grew so bold I thought he would have cock'd it It scar'd me so I streak'd it off And hung by father's pocket
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
But Captain Davis has a gun He kind of clap'd his hand on't And struck a crooked stabbing iron Upon the little end on't
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
And there I see a pumpkin shell As big as mother's basin And every time they touch'd it off They scamper'd like the nation
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
I see a little barrel too The heads were made of leather They knock'd upon it with little clubs And call'd the folks together
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
And there was Captain Washington And gentle folks about him They say he's grown so tarnal proud He will not ride without 'em
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
He got him on his meeting clothes Upon a slapping stallion He set the world along in rows In hundreds and in millions
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
The flaming ribbons in their hats They look'd so tearing fine, ah I wanted plagueily to get To give to my Jemima
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
I see another snarl of men A-digging graves they told me So tarnal long, so tarnel deep They 'tended they should hold me
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
It scar'd me so I hooked it off Nor stopped as I remember Nor turn'd about till I got home Lock'd up in mother's chamber
Yankee doodle keep it up Yankee doodle dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy
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