Here is Jimmie Driftwood 's version

DAMYANKEE LAD
As recorded by Jimmie Driftwoood

I'm just a Damyankee way down in the South
I love to kiss Southern belles in the mouth
I laugh when they say all Damyankees are bad
For nobody knows I'm a Damyankee Lad.

When I found old Sherman had left me behind
A very strange notion came into my mind
I dressed up in grey and I made up a spiel
And I headed straight for the town of Mobile.

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I'm having fun like I never have had
Nobody knows I'm a Damyankee Lad

Not far from Atlanta I heard people say
Old Sherman had taken the food all away
'Twas there that I smiled on a lovely Mad-dam
Who fed me on honey and peaches and ham

I stopped in the country and got in a tight*
Where six widows claimed me and had a big fight
I had to be slick as a slippery eel
To get on my way to the town of Mobile

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I got to Mobile and I found a Creole
She captured my heart an' she captured my soul
It's been twenty years since I made up my spiel
And went on my Damyankee way to Mobile.

I've raised a fine family of girls and young men*
They swear that damn Yankees are all full of sin
They'd call you a liar if you said their dad
Had marched to Mobile as a Damyankee Lad

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When I get so old that I'm ready to die
I'll put on my uniform blue as the sky
They'll march 'round my coffin and won't they get mad
When they learn that I was a DamnYankee Lad.

REPEAT VERSE 1

CHORUS

SOURCE:
The Wilderness Road And Jimmie Driftwood

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*Note from Joe Offer:
Gene hears I stopped in the country and got in a tight*
I hear I stopped in Montgomery and got in a tight*
Gene hears I've raised a fine family of girls and young men*
I hear
I've raised a big family of girls and young men*