Yankee Doodle

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Yankee Doodle

• By
• Angelica and Samantha

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What

• Have you every heard the song Yankee Doodle? Do
  you know what Yankee Doodle means? Do you know
  why he was important to the American Revolution.
  Well you are about to find out.

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The Answers

• Well first of all Yankee is just a nick name for
  the English colonialist.
• Like in the war instead of calling you by your
  real name they might call you Johnny rebel or
  just plain old Yankee

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The Real Song

• Father and I went down to camp,
• Along with Captain Goodwin,
• And there we saw the men and boys,
• As thick as hasting pudding
• Yankee Doodle Keep it up,
• Yankee Doodle dandy,
• Mind the music and the step, And let the girls be
  handy.
• And there was general Washington
• Upon a snow white charger,
• He looked as big as all outdoors,
• Some thought he was much larger.
• Yankee Doodle Keep it up,
• Yankee Doodle dandy,
• Mind the music and the step, And let the girls be
  handy.
• And there was Colnel Putnam too,
• Drest in his regimentals,
• I guess as how the British King,
• Cant whip out our Continentals
• Yankee Doodle Keep it up,

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Rest of the song

• And there they had a copper gun,
• Big as a log of maple,
• They tied it to a wooden cart,
• A load for fathers cattle.
• Yankee Doodle Keep it up,
• Yankee Doodle dandy,
• Mind the music and the step, And let the girls be
  handy.
• And evry time they fird it off,
• It took a horn of powder,
• It made a noise like fathers gun,
• Only a nation louder.
• Yankee Doodle Keep it up,
• Yankee Doodle dandy,
• Mind the music and the step, And let the girls be
  handy.
• I went as near to myself,
• As anybody dare go,
• And father went as near again,
• I thought he darnt do so.
• Yankee Doodle Keep it up,

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More of the song

• Yankee Doodle Keep it up,
• Yankee Doodle dandy,
• Mind the music and the step, And let the girls be
  handy.
• And there they fifd away like fun,
• And playd on cornstalk fiddles,
• And some had ribbins around there hats,
• And some around there middles.
• Yankee Doodle Keep it up,
• Yankee Doodle dandy,
• Mind the music and the step, And let the girls be
  handy.
• The troopers too, would gallop up,
• And fird in all direction,
• I thought they really meant to kill,
• All the cowboys in the nation.
• Yankee Doodle Keep it up,
• Yankee Doodle dandy,
• Mind the music and the step, And let the girls be
  handy.
• But I cant tell you half I seed,
• They kept up such a smoother,

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Credits

• Slideshow By Samantha and Angelica
• Courtesy Of Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Jungman
• Special Thanks To Sedley, Kyra, Maddy and
  Sydney
• Information Google and The Cambridge Library
• Thanks to the class for singing