12. another Yankee Doodle.
Yankee Doodle had a mindTo whip the Southern traitors,
Because they didn't choose to live
On codfish and potatoes.
Yankee Doodle, doodle-doo,
Yankee Doodle dandy;--
And so, to keep his courage up,
He took a drink of brandy.
Yankee Doodle said he found,
By all the census figures,
That he could starve the rebels out,
If he could steal their niggers.
Yankee Doodle, doodle-doo,
Yankee Doodle dandy;--
And then he took another drink
Of gunpowder and brandy.
Yankee Doodle made a speech;
'Twas very full of feeling:
“I fear,” says he, “I cannot fight,
But I am good at stealing.”
Yankee Doodle, doodle-doo,
Yankee Doodle dandy;--
Hurrah for Lincoln — he's the boy
To take a drop of brandy.
Yankee Doodle drew his sword,
And practised all the passes;
“Come, boys, we'll take another drink
When we get to Manassas.”
Yankee Doodle, doodle-doo,
Yankee Doodle dandy;--
They never reached Manassas' plain,
And never got the brandy.
Yankee Doodle soon found out
That Bull Run was no trifle;
For if the North knew how to steal,
The South knew how to rifle.
Yankee Doodle, doodle-doo,
Yankee Doodle dandy;--
“'Tis very clear, I took too much
Of that infernal brandy.”
Yankee Doodle wheeled about,
And scampered off at full run;
And such a race was never seen,
As that he made at Bull Run.
Yankee Doodle, doodle-doo,
Yankee Doodle dandy;--
“I haven't time to stop just now
To take a drop of brandy.”
Yankee Doodle, oh! for shame;
You're always intermeddling; [9]
Let guns alone, they're dangerous things;
You'd better stick to peddling.
Yankee Doodle, doodle-doo,
Yankee Doodle dandy;--
“When next I go to Bully Run,
I'll throw away the brandy.”
Yankee Doodle, you had ought
To be a little smarter;
Instead of catching woolly heads,
I vow you've caught a tartar.
Yankee Doodle, doodle-doo,
Yankee Doodle dandy;--
Go to hum — you've had enough
Of rebels and of brandy.
--Richmond Whig.
