Song 12 in Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors · Song 13 in Ukulele for Beginners

Yankee Doodle

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For Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors.

Slow (70% speed) (0:33)
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For Ukulele for Beginners.

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Yankee Doodle went to town
Ariding on a pony,
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.
Father and I went down to camp,
Along with Captain Gooding,
And there we saw the men and boys
As thick as hasty pudding.

Music: Traditional (tune known in America by the 1750s)
Words: Traditional
First published: Tune printed 1782 (Aird, A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, Glasgow); words in broadsides from c. 1775
Copyright: Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.