Yankee Boy, A

DESCRIPTION: "A Yankee boy is trimmed and tall And never over-fat, sir. At dance ad frolic and hop and ball, As nimble as a rabbit, sir. Yankee Doodle, guard your coast." The Yankee guards his land. A Yankee girl keeps her cow "Without the king or his orderly, sir."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (Nestler)
KEYWORDS: patriotic farming home
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Dime-Song-Book #34, pp. 36-37, "The Yankee Boy" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Harold Nestler, "Songs from the Hudson Valley" (article in _New York Folklore Quarterly_, Volume V, #2, Summer 1949), p. 110, "A Yankee Boy" (1 text)
NOTES [22 words]: This looks as if it was originally supposed to be sung to "Yankee Doodle," but as recorded by Nestler, it doesn't fit very well. - RBW
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File: Nest110B

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