Good Old Yankee Doodle, The (For the Fourth of July)

DESCRIPTION: "Yankee Doodle is the name/tune some Yankee chap invented To sing on Independence Day to make us feel contented." Mormons find it "convenient" to sing the song on Independence Day. Mormons are spreading. Some want to change the Constitution to stop them
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1882 (George W. Johnson, Jottings by the Way, according to Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle)
KEYWORDS: derivative humorous | Mormon Yankee Doodle
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam, "For the Foirth of July" (1 text, tune referenced)
Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle, pp. 331-332, "The Good Old Yankee Doodle" (1 text)
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 185-186, "The Good Old Yankee Doodle" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #10877
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Yankee Doodle" (tune) and references there
NOTES [99 words]: This is really two songs, the first an early American patriotic song found in several songsters and represented by the Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam text and the second a Mormon modification (found in Cheney and Fife/Fife) about the Saints' relationship with the United States. I wonder if George W. Johnson, who published the first text of the Mormon version, might be the author of that. He certainly didn't write the original.
Properly they should be split. But since there isn't any evidence that either version is traditional, I've followed Steve Roud in filing them under one number. - RBW
Last updated in version 7.0
File: ChMS185

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