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Fath’r and I went down to camp,Along with Cap’n Goodin',And there we saw the men and boysAs thick as hasty puddin'.CHORUS:Yankee Doodle keep it up,Yankee Doodle dandy,Mind the music and the step,And with the girls be handy.And there we saw a thousand menAs rich as Squire David,And what they wasted every day,I wish it could be saved.CHORUSThe 'lasses they eat it every day,Would keep a house a winter;They have so much, that I’ll be bound,They eat it when they’ve mind ter.CHORUSAnd there I see a swamping gunLarge as a log of maple,Upon a deuced little cart,A load for father’s cattle.CHORUSAnd every time they shoot it off,It takes a horn of powder,and makes a noise like father’s gun,Only a nation louder.CHORUSI went as nigh to one myselfAs 'Siah’s inderpinning;And father went as nigh again,I thought the deuce was in him.CHORUSCousin Simon grew so bold,I thought he would have cocked it;It scared me so I shrinked it offAnd hung by father’s pocket.CHORUSAnd Cap’n Davis had a gun,He kind of clapt his hand on’tAnd stuck a crooked stabbing ironUpon the little end on’tCHORUSAnd there I see a pumpkin shellAs big as mother’s bason,And every time they touched it offThey scampered like the nation.CHORUSI see a little barrel too,The heads were made of leather;They knocked on it with little clubsAnd called the folks together.CHORUSAnd there was Cap’n Washington,And gentle folks about him;They say he’s grown so 'tarnal proudHe will not ride without em'.CHORUSHe got him on his meeting clothes,Upon a slapping stallion;He sat the world along in rows,In hundreds and in millions.CHORUSThe flaming ribbons in his hat,They looked so tearing fine, ah,I wanted dreadfully to getTo give to my Jemima.CHORUSI see another snarl of menA digging graves they told me,So 'tarnal long, so 'tarnal deep,They 'tended they should hold me.CHORUSIt scared me so, I hooked it off,Nor stopped, as I remember,Nor turned about till I got home,Locked up in mother’s chamber.CHORUSGen. George P. Morris

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The troopers, too, would gallop upAnd fire right in our faces;It scared me almost to deathTo see them run such races.CHORUSBut I can’t tell half I seeThey kept up such a smother;So I took my hat off, made a bow,And scampered home to mother.

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