Father and I went down to eamp,

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.



There was Captain Washington

Upon a slapping stallion,

A-giving orders to his men,

I guess there was a million.



Yankee doodle, keep it up,

Yankee doodle dandy;

Mind the music and the step,

And with the girls be handy.



And then the feathers on his hat,

They looked so' tarnal fin-a,

I wanted pockily 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.





And then we saw a swamping gun,

Large as a log of maple;

Upon a deuced 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 underpinning;

And father went as nigh agin,

I thought the deuce was in him.



Yankee doodle, keep it up,

Yankee doodle dandy;

Mind the music and the step,

And with the girls be handy.



We saw a little barrel, too,

The heads were made of leather;

They knocked upon it with little clubs,

And called the folks together.



Yankee doodle, keep