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Thread #101727   Message #2054729
Posted By: The Walrus
17-May-07 - 12:13 PM
Thread Name: British American Independence songs
Subject: RE: British American Independence songs
You could always try the traditional versions of "Yankee Doodle" (After all, the original song makes a mockery of an American rustic -the eponimous "Yankee Doodle" - who thinks wearing feathers puts him on a sartorial level with an elaborate Anglo-Italian dresss parody*) - I believe during the war, the British military band practice was to play it ending in a musical 'raspberry'**

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* IIRC, "Macaroni" was an English/British+ parody of an Italian take on an English fashion++.
** I believe this is mentioned in "Songs and Muisic of the Redcoats"
+ I don't know if 'Macaroni' was practiced o any extent in Scotland or Ireland
++ London once was a centre for fashion.