Lyr Req: The Yankee Doodle Boy (George M. Cohan)

Subject: yankie dodle
From: GUEST,teresa
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 09:58 AM

there is a song that starts i am a yankie dodle dandy,i am a yankie dodle dandy boy . real live nephew of my uncle sam, born on the fourth of july . does any know the title of the song or have the words to it

Subject: Lyr Add: THE YANKEE DOODLE BOY (George M. Cohan)
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 10:07 AM

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?)

MIDI here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: yankie dodle
From: masato sakurai
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 10:12 AM

It's George Cohan's THE YANKEE DOODLE BOY (retitled later as "(I'm a) Yankee Doodle Dandy". James Cagney won Oscar portraying Cohan in biopic Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: yankie dodle
From: weepiper
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 02:18 PM

When I was a kid we used to sing:
Yankee Doodle came to London
Riding on a pony,
Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: yankie dodle
From: MMario
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 02:20 PM

weepiper - the song in question above references the original "Yankee Doodle" - both lyrically and musically. but is a complete seperate song composition on its own.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: yankie dodle
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 03:45 PM

Y'all have got it wrong here.........This is a request for "Yankee Dodle" and not "Yankee Doodle." As I recall, the Dodle thing goes something like this:

Yankee Dodle went to town
Playing his melodeon.
The box dropped hard into his lap
Landing on his scrotum.

Yankee Dodle grabbed his nuts
And gave that box a heave-ho.
It sailed ungainly though the air
Then crashed and smashed a banjo.

The crowd all cheered and clapped and shrieked,
As the splinters flew.
Yankee Dodle doffed his hat
But his balls were black and blue.

Hope that clears things up.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: yankie dodle
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 03:58 PM

SPAW! BEHAVE!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: yankie dodle
From: MMario
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 04:09 PM

You didn't tell Karen when your meds ran out, again?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: yankie dodle
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 04:31 PM

Yeah....Sorry, you guys are right. I made a mistake here myself. I thought it was Yankee Dodle and in point of fact, it's Yankie Dodle which is:

kie Dodle was a guy
Who dressed up like a female
He'd walk down 42nd Street
And look for chicks in Chain Mail.

He'd beat her and she'd beat him
They both had great endurance.
The day would dawn, they'd change their clothes
Then go and sell insurance.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: yankie dodle
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 04:36 PM

I sort of had a different idea about "yankie dodle", but if spaw can't think of it, I'm staying quiet........(grin)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: yankie dodle
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 05:42 PM

Oh, Sorcha! Don't encourage him!

Subject: Lyr Add: YANKEE DOODLE (original?)
From: robomatic
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 08:09 PM

I did a brief search and did not see it, so will recite:

I live in Alaska, but hale from Needham, Mass. which traces its roots to colonial times when it was a suburb of Dedham. We modestly call our portion of the world 'New England'. During the Bicentennial my town released a creditable recording of period songs, one of which was 'Yankee Doodle' with (I believe) the original words, which were written by someone from Mother England to poke fun at the colonials' feaux primness, simplicity, thrift, and habits of naming themselves after little known biblical figures. It dates more from the time of Indian Wars and attacks on French Canada:

Brother Efrem sold his cow
And bought him a commission
Then he went to Canada
To fight for the nation
But when Efrem he come home
He proved an arrant coward
He wouldn't fight the Frenchmen there
For fear of being devoured.

chorus:
Sheepshead and vinegar
Buttermilk and tansy
Boston is a Yankee town
Sing hey doodle dandy
First we take a pinch of snuff
then a drink of water
Then we say 'how do you do'
And that's a Yankee supper

Aminadab has just come home
His eyes all crisped like bacon
And all that news that he can tell
Is that Cape Breton's taken
Stand up, Jonathon
Figure in by neighbor
Father, stand a little off
And make the room some wider

chor.

Christmas is a-comin' boys
We'll go to Mother Chase's
And there we'll get a sugar dram
And sweeten with molasses
Uncle is a Yankee man
In faith he pays us all off
He has got hisself a fiddle
Big as Daddy's hog-trough

chor.

Hey ho, for our Cape Cod
Hey ho, Nantasket
Do not let the Boston Whites
Feel your oyster basket

chor.

Man I'm homesick. I think I'll go to Boston next week!

HTML line breaks added --JoeClone, 28-Nov-01.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: yankie dodle
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 11:33 PM

Now you have me thinking...Is a dodle dandy anything like a dainty davey? Spaw? What do you think?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: yankie dodle
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 12:02 AM

Awh...ye bunch of wankers...this be the one she be seekin fer certain

Yank my doodle it's a dandy,
Yank my doodle 'till I die,
Make that wiener shoot some fireworks,
Just like the Fourth of July.

I've got a Yankee doodle boner,
I've had it since you rubbed my thigh,
So yank my doodle if you please.
That bulge is not a pony,
Just stick your fingers up my ass,
And stroke my macaroni.

Yank my doodle it's so big,
Clearly it's a dandy,
Stick that sucker in your mouth,
You'll swear it tastes like candy.

Yank my doodle it's a dandy,
Yank my doodle 'till I die,
Lick that lizard 'till it's standing tall,
Right through my pubic hair.
If you like Yankee doodle peckers,
I've got one that I can spare.

So yank my doodle 'till it cums,
Just point it toward your titties,
They say that stuff is beauty cream,
Let's make your titties pretty.

Yank my doodle it's so big,
Baby it's a dandy,
Jerk that Turk and make it squirt,
And keep a Kleenex handy.

Yank my doodle it's a dandy,
Yank my doodle 'till I die...