Yankee Doodle: Perbedaan antara revisi

Lagu ini dimainkan pada setiap awal dan akhir interval acara [[Voice of America]]. Lagu ini pertama dinyanyikan oleh pejabat militer Inggris untuk menghina orang Amerika yang mereka sebut "[[Yankee]]". Saat itu, arti kata ''[[doodle]]'' adalah orang kampungan atau bodoh.

:''Brother Ephraim sold his Cow

:''And bought him a Commission;

:''And then he went to Canada

:''To fight for the Nation;

:''But when Ephraim he came home

:''He proved an arrant Coward,

:''He wouldn't fight the Frenchmen there

:''Fath'r and I went down to camp,

:''Along with Captain Goodin',

:''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.

:''And there we saw a thousand men

:''As rich as Squire David,

:''And what they wasted ev'ry day,

:''I wish it could be saved.

:''Yankee Doodle &c.

:''And there we saw a swamping gun,

:''Large as a log of maple,

:''Yankee Doodle &c.

:''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.

:''Yankee Doodle &c.

:''I saw a little barrel too,

:Yankee Doodle had a mind

:To whip the Southern rebels,

:Because they did not choose to live

:On codfish from his tables.

:Yankee Doodle, fa, so la,

:Yankee Doodle dandy,

:And so to keep his courage up,