He’ll ever prove true blue, Sir,
When call’d upon to give his toast,
’Tis “Yankee-doodle-doo,” Sir.
Chorus—Yankee Doodle, etc.
The following verses are cited from an American Paper, “The Transcript,” in Willis’s Current Notes for 1852:—
The Origin of Yankee Doodle.
After the manner of the old
Continental Ballad writers.
Once on a time old Johnny Bull,
Flew in a raging fury,
And swore that Jonathan should have