Summary

Edward Bangs,  The Farmer and his Son's return from a visit to the CAMP (1776)

“ Yankey doodle keep it up, yankey doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.
And there we see a thousand men,
As rich as squire David,
And what they wasted every day,
I wish it had been saved.
Yankey doodle, &c.
The 'lasses they eat every day,
Would keep an house a winter;
They have as much that I'll be bound,
They eat it when they're mind to.
Yankey doodle, &c.
”
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