And there we saw a thousand men

As rich as Squire David,

And what they wasted every day,

I wish it could be saved.

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And there we saw a swamping gun,

Large as a log of maple,

Upon a deuced little cart,

A load for father's cattle.

 

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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.

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Cousin Simon grew so bold,

I thought he would have cock'd it.

It scared me so, I shrieked it off,

And hung by father's pocket.

 

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I saw a little barrel too,

The heads were made of leather.

They knocked on it with little clubs

And called the folks together.

 

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And there was Captain Washington,

And gentlefolks about him.

They say he's grown so tarnal proud,

He will not ride without them.

 

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He got himself in meeting-clothes,

Upon a slapping stallion.

He set the world along in rows,

In hundreds and in millions.

 

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The flaming ribbons in his hat,

They looked so taring fine, ah,

I wanted pockily to get,

To give to my Jemimah.

 

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