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Yankee Doodle went to town A-riding on a pony, Stuck a feather in his cap And called it macaroni. [Chorus] Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy. Father and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Gooding, [a] And there we saw the men and boys As thick as hasty pudding. [Chorus]
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, A Yankee Doodle, do or die; A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam, Born on the Fourth of July. I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart, She's my Yankee Doodle joy. Yankee Doodle came to London, just to ride the ponies; I am the Yankee Doodle Boy. Footnotes: 1 "All the candy" was late 19th century slang equivalent to "hot stuff".
James Cagney appeared in a play-within-a-play staging of numbers and dances from Little Johnny Jones in the 1942 film, Yankee Doodle Dandy. David Cassidy starred in a touring revival in 1981. [ 18 ] After previewing at Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House and touring, [ 19 ] a 1982 revival, adapted by Alfred Uhry and starring Donny Osmond in the ...
Confederate soldiers, by and large, preferred these war versions to the original minstrel lyrics. "Dixie" was probably the most popular song for Confederate soldiers on the march, in battle, and at camp. [67] Southerners who rallied to the song proved reluctant to acknowledge a Yankee as its composer. Accordingly, some ascribed it a longer ...
1 Lyrics. 2 Tune. 3 Origins and meaning. 4 Notes. Toggle the table of contents. Lucy Locket. ... with Yankee Doodle emerged in North America in the mid-eighteenth ...
Sections of the song arranged by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane are sung to the tunes of "Kingdom Coming" and "Yankee Doodle". In the 1951 film Across the Wide Missouri it is sung by Clark Gable (while playing a Jew's Harp) and others throughout the movie. In the classic Western The Searchers (1956), Ken Curtis uses the song to serenade Vera Miles.
When I Come Back To You (We'll Have A Yankee-Doodle Wedding) is a World War I song written and composed by William Tracey and Jack Stern. [1] The song was first published in 1918 by Douglas & Newman Music in New York, NY .The sheet music cover depicts a soldier hugging a woman with the Liberty Bell in the background.
The song has been recorded many times. It was featured prominently in a solo song-and-dance sequence done by James Cagney in his Oscar-winning performance in the 1942 film about Cohan's life, Yankee Doodle Dandy. It has also been performed by Jimmy Roselli, Judy Garland, and Patti LuPone.