Confederate "Yankee Doodle"

DESCRIPTION: "Yankee Doodle had a mind to whip the southern traitors Because they didn't choose to live on codfish and potatoes... And so to keep his courage up he took a drink of brandy." The song notes that even the brandy didn't help at Bull Run
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1864 (Moore, Rebel Rhymes and Rhapsodies, according to Silber-SongsOfTheCivilWar)
KEYWORDS: Civilwar battle parody derivative
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
July 21, 1861 - First battle of Bull Run fought between the Union army of McDowell and the Confederates under Johnston and Beauregard
FOUND IN: US(NE,So)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Huntington-FolksongsFromMarthasVineyard, p. 10, "(no title)" (1 text)
Randolph 249, "Confederate 'Yankee Doodle'" (1 text)
Lomax/Lomax-AmericanBalladsAndFolkSongs, pp. 521-525, "Yankee Doodle" (4 texts, 1 tune, of which the third is this version)
Hudson-FolksongsOfMississippi 122, pp. 262-263, "Yankee Doodle" (1 text)
Silber-SongsOfTheCivilWar, p. 203, "Confederate Yankee Doodle" (1 text, tune referenced)
DT, YNKDOOD2*
Roud #7715
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Yankee Doodle" (tune) and references there
File: R249

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