Yankee Doodle (Columbia's Sons are Handy)

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "With Yankee Doodle, doodle, doo, Yankee Doodle dandy, Our tars will show the haughty foe Columbia's sons are handy." We are free of King George and his descendants. We can whip the British tars and "care no more for France than Britain"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1839 (Erskine-TwentyYearsBeforeTheMast)
KEYWORDS: war navy patriotic
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Erskine-TwentyYearsBeforeTheMast, pp. 95-96, "Yankee Doodle" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Yankee Doodle" (tune) and references there
NOTES [54 words]: In 1839 Erskine was part of an American crew that dropped into the Jolly Sailor's Inn in Sydney, Australia. "It was a large square room. On either side were a number of tables, over which hung various national flags." Crews at the tables sang their own Russian, English, French or U.S. songs. The Americans sang this song. - BS
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File: Ersk095

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