Doodle Dandy



Doodle doodle doodle dandy

Cornstalks, rum and homemade brandy

Indian pudding and pumpkin pie

And that will make the Yankees fly!



And ev'ry Yankee shall have on his back

A great big pumpkin in a sack,

A little molasses and a piece of pork

And away we'll march straight to New York!





Note: Reportedly sung by American troops as they marched from

Newburgh to NYC, as the British abandoned the city. There's a

statue of Washington on horseback in Union Square Park; the

story goes that this commemorates an all-day wait for the

British flag to come down at the Battery; the delay was due to a

disgruntled Redcoat nailing the flag to the top of the flagpole

and then greasing the pole. RG



Collected by Frank Warner from Roy Walsworth, 1941

Recorded by Warner

@America @soldier @war @revolution

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