The Yankee Doodle Boy - Lyrics

Lyrics

Verse 1

I'm the kid that's all the candy, 1

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 Dixie strain,

I long to see the girl I left behind me;

That ain't a josh,

She's a Yankee, by gosh.

Oh, say can you see,

Anything about a Yankee that's a phony?

Verse 2

Father's name was Hezikiah,

Mother's name was Ann Maria, 2

Yanks through and through.

Red, White and Blue

Father was so Yankee-hearted,

When the Spanish war was started,

He slipped on a uniform and hopped upon a pony.

My mother's mother was a Yankee true,

My father's father was a Yankee too:

That's going some,

For the Yankees, by gum.

Oh, say can you see

Anything about my pedigree that's phony?

Chorus

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy,

A Yankee Doodle, do or die;

A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam,

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.

Footnotes:

1 "All the candy" was late nineteenth century slang equivalent to "hot stuff".

2 Pronounced the old-fashioned way, "mah-RYE-ah"