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.
Father and I went down to camp,
Along with Captain Gooding,
And there we saw the men and boys
As thick as hasty puudin'.
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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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And there was Captain Washington
Upon a slapping stallion,
A-giving orders to his men,
I guess there was a million.
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The 'lasses they eat every day,
Would keep a house in 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 cocked 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 pumkin 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 to,
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 dogging 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.