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Yankee Doodle chords
Traditional British / American
G D
Fath'r and I went down to camp,
G D7
Along with Cap'n Goodin',
G C
And there we saw the men and boys
D G
As thick as hasty puddin'.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
And there we saw a thousand men
G D7
As rich as Squire David,
G C
And what they wasted every day,
D G
I wish it could be saved.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
The 'lasses they eat it every day,
G D7
Would keep a house a winter;
G C
They have so much, that I'll be bound,
D G
They eat it when they've mind ter.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
And there I see a swamping gun
G D7
Large as a log of maple,
G C
Upon a deuced little cart,
D G
A load for father's cattle.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
And every time they shoot it off,
G D7
It takes a horn of powder,
G C
and makes a noise like father's gun,
D G
Only a nation louder.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
I went as nigh to one myself
G D7
As 'Siah's inderpinning;
G C
And father went as nigh again,
D G
I thought the deuce was in him.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
Cousin Simon grew so bold,
G D7
I thought he would have cocked it;
G C
It scared me so I shrinked it off
D G
And hung by father's pocket.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
And Cap'n Davis had a gun,
G D7
He kind of clapt his hand on't
G C
And stuck a crooked stabbing iron
D G
Upon the little end on't
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/r/richard_shuckburgh/yankee_doodle_crd.html ]
G D
And there I see a pumpkin shell
G D7
As big as mother's bason,
G C
And every time they touched it off
D G
They scampered like the nation.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
I see a little barrel too,
G D7
The heads were made of leather;
G C
They knocked on it with little clubs
D G
And called the folks together.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
And there was Cap'n Washington,
G D7
And gentle folks about him;
G C
They say he's grown so 'tarnal proud
D G
He will not ride without em'.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
He got him on his meeting clothes,
G D7
Upon a slapping stallion;
G C
He sat the world along in rows,
D G
In hundreds and in millions.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
The flaming ribbons in his hat,
G D7
They looked so tearing fine, ah,
G C
I wanted dreadfully to get
D G
To give to my Jemima.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
I see another snarl of men
G D7
A digging graves they told me,
G C
So 'tarnal long, so 'tarnal deep,
D G
They 'tended they should hold me.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
G D
It scared me so, I hooked it off,
G D7
Nor stopped, as I remember,
G C
Nor turned about till I got home,
D G
Locked up in mother's chamber.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
Lyrics added by the South during the Civil War:
Yankee Doodle went to town
A-riding on A pony
Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
Father and I went down to camp
Along with Captain Gooding
And there we saw the men and boys
As thick as hasty pudding.
C
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C
Mind the music and the step,
G D7 G
And with the girls be handy.
There was Captain Washington
Upon a slapping stallion
A-giving orders to his men
I guess there was a million.
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