I posted the words to the song 'The Knowing Macaroni' in another thread. (hope this link works.) More news, possibly of wider interest than the original song:

...which goes towards a better understanding of how that dandy from Yankee Doodle could stick a feather in his cap and think that was good enough to call "macaroni".

Norman Stanfield School of Music / www.music.ubc.ca University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C., Canada