How did you sing the version of Yankee Doodle Dandy? Interesting fact

[Woodland Detectors]

If you sing "Yankee Doodle" with these lyrics:

Yankee Doodle went to town
A riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni

You’re actually singing a version of the song the British wrote to make fun of the Colonists. Back in Colonial times "macaroni" meant high fashion. So, the British were basically calling the Colonials "silly country bumpkins" (Redneck, Hillbillie) who thought a feather in their hat made good.

The real first verse of the song? Try these lyrics:

Fath'r and I went down to camp,
Along with Cap'n Goodin',
And there we saw the men and boys
As thick as hasty puddin'.

 

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[Burnt Chimney]

"as thick as hasty puddin" Is that the same as cold grits ?

 

[Dano Sverige]

Wonder how many are going to be honest?

1st version.(surprise eh? )

 

[Kayaker]

Interesting. I've certainly heard the part about macaroni meaning "fancy" or "highfallutin", and always took the lyric as meaning that the Yankee in the verse was poking fun at the pompous city folk. But it appears that the Brits did indeed make it up to poke fun at the colonists.

 

[spartacus53]

Interesting. I've certainly heard the part about macaroni meaning "fancy" or "highfallutin", and always took the lyric as meaning that the Yankee in the verse was poking fun at the pompous city folk. But it appears that the Brits did indeed make it up to poke fun at the colonists.

Of course the Brits were poking fun... Here's another fact about the song most don't know.

It was Dano's great-great-great grandfather that wrote it

 

[deepskyal]

I sang the first one you listed. Thats what I was taught back in...ummm...1960 or so...

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
Yankee Doodle do or die,
Yankee doodle went to town, riding on a pony,
I am a yankee do or die!!!

So what movie was that from?

Al

 

[wayne_sa]

I sang the first one you listed. Thats what I was taught back in...ummm...1960 or so...

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
Yankee Doodle do or die,
Yankee doodle went to town, riding on a pony,
I am a yankee do or die!!!

So what movie was that from?

Al

James Cagney in...

 

[RGINN]

In grade school music class we sang both verses in the same song. We were never taught it was a patriotic song. It was just one of those that everybody could sing and the teacher could play it on the piano. We just took a derogatory song from the British and threw it right back in their faces.

 

[Dano Sverige]

We never noticed RGINN

Interesting. I've certainly heard the part about macaroni meaning "fancy" or "highfallutin", and always took the lyric as meaning that the Yankee in the verse was poking fun at the pompous city folk. But it appears that the Brits did indeed make it up to poke fun at the colonists.

Of course the Brits were poking fun... Here's another fact about the song most don't know.

It was Dano's great-great-great grandfather that wrote it

If he had..there'd have been a LOT more swear words in it!

 

[Theakiki]

Father and I went down to camp,
Along with Captain Gooding;
And there we saw the men and boys,
As thick as hasty pudding.

Yankee doodle, keep it up,
Yankee doodle dandy;
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.

There was Captain Washington
Upon a slapping stallion,
A-giving orders to his men,
I guess there was a million.

And then the feathers on his hat,
They looked so' tarnal fin-a,
I wanted pockily to get
To give to my Jemima.

And then we saw a swamping gun,
Large as a log of maple;
Upon a deuced little cart,
A load for father's cattle.

And every time they shoot it off,
It takes a horn of powder;
It makes a noise like father's gun,
Only a nation louder.

I went as nigh to one myself,
As' Siah's underpinning;
And father went as nigh agin,
I thought the deuce was in him.

We saw a little barrel, too,
The heads were made of leather;
They knocked upon it with little clubs,
And called the folks together.

And there they'd fife away like fun,
And play on cornstalk fiddles,
And some had ribbons red as blood,
All bound around their middles.

The troopers, too, would gallop up
And fire right in our faces;
It scared me almost to death
To see them run such races.

Uncle Sam came there to change
Some pancakes and some onions,
For' lasses cake to carry home
To give his wife and young ones.

But I can't tell half I see
They kept up such a smother;
So I took my hat off, made a bow,
And scampered home to mother.

Cousin Simon grew so bold,
I thought he would have cocked it;
It scared me so I streaked it off,
And hung by father's pocket.

And there I saw a pumpkin shell,
As big as mother's basin;
And every time they touched it off,
They scampered like the nation.

Yankee doodle, keep it up,
Yankee doodle dandy;
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.

 

[Dano Sverige]

Hmm..i suppose it made sense in those days?

 

[RGINN]

haha! Didn't figure you guys did, Dano. Y'all probably had your hands full with more important matters at the time.

 

[Tuberale]

I sang the first one you listed. Thats what I was taught back in...ummm...1960 or so...

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
Yankee Doodle do or die,
Yankee doodle went to town, riding on a pony,
I am a yankee do or die!!!

So what movie was that from?

Al

I *thought* it was George M. Cohen. But my expert research skills prove it was Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).