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The song YANKEE'S RETURN FROM CAMP
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Article #1 (35 is last):
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Newsgroups: freenet.shrine.songs
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From: aa001 (Thomas Grundner)
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Subject: Yankee's Return
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 90 22:12:37 EST
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THE YANKEE'S RETURN FROM CAMP
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(song from Revolutionary War era)
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Father and I went down to camp
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Along with Captain Gooding
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There we see the men and boys
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As thick as hasty-pudding
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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And there we see a thousand men
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As rich as Squire David
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And what they wasted every day
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I wish it could be saved
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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The m'lasses they eat every day
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Would keep an house a winter
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They have as much that I'll be bound
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They eat it when they're amind to
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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And there we see a swamping gun
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Large as a log of maple
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Upon a duced little cart
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A load for father's cattle
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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And every time they shoot it off
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It takes a horn of powder
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It makes a noise like father's gun
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Only a nation louder
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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I went as nigh to one myself
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As 'Siah's under-pinning
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And father went as nigh again
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I thought the duce was in him
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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Cousin Simon grew so bold
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I thought he would have cock'd it
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It scar'd me so I streak'd it off
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And hung by father's pocket
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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But Captain Davis has a gun
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He kind of clap'd his hand on't
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And struck a crooked stabbing iron
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Upon the little end on't
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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And there I see a pumpkin shell
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As big as mother's basin
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And every time they touch'd it off
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They scamper'd like the nation
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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I see a little barrel too
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The heads were made of leather
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They knock'd upon it with little clubs
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And call'd the folks together
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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And there was Captain Washington
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And gentle folks about him
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They say he's grown so tarnal proud
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He will not ride without 'em
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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He got him on his meeting clothes
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Upon a slapping stallion
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He set the world along in rows
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In hundreds and in millions
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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The flaming ribbons in their hats
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They look'd so tearing fine, ah
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I wanted plagueily to get
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To give to my Jemima
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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I see another snarl of men
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A-digging graves they told me
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So tarnal long, so tarnel deep
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They 'tended they should hold me
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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It scar'd me so I hooked it off
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Nor stopped as I remember
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Nor turn'd about till I got home
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Lock'd up in mother's chamber
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Yankee doodle keep it up
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Yankee doodle dandy
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Mind the music and the step
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And with the girls be handy
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Prepared by Gerald Murphy (The Cleveland Free-Net - aa300)
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