THE YANKEE DOODLE BOY
words and music by George M. Cohan
(New York: F. A. Mills, 1904)

1. I'm the kid that's all the candy.
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy.
I'm glad I am.
(So's Uncle Sam.)
I'm a real live Yankee Doodle;
Made my name and fame and boodle
Just like Mister Doodle did,
By riding on a pony.
I love to listen to the Dixey strain:
"I long to see the girl I left behind me,"
And that ain't a josh.
She's a Yankee, by gosh.
(Oh, say can you see
Anything about a Yankee that's a phoney?)

CHORUS: I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
A Yankee Doodle, do or die,
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam's,
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.

2. Father's name was Hezikiah.
Mother's name was Ann Maria,
Yanks through and through.
(Red, white and blue.)
Father was so Yankee-hearted,
When the Spanish War was started,
He slipped upon his uniform
And hopped up on a pony.
My mother's mother was a Yankee true.
My father's father was a Yankee too,
And that's going some,
For the Yankees, by gum.
(Oh, say can you see
Anything about my pedigree that's phoney?)

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