{"product_id":"the-yankee-s-return-from-camp-song-lyrics","title":"\"The Yankee’s Return from Camp\" — Song lyrics — Broadside reproduction from The Printing Office of Edes \u0026 Gill in Boston","description":"\u003cp\u003eA reproduction of an early version of “Yankee Doodle,” printed under the title The Yankee’s Return from Camp. The broadside preserves one of the Revolutionary era’s most interesting pieces of political music, a song that began as ridicule and was ultimately adopted by Americans as an expression of defiance and patriotism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the 1760s, “Yankee Doodle” was already in circulation, and British soldiers used the tune to mock American colonists. During the Revolution, however, Americans appropriated the song for themselves. The tune became closely associated with the Patriot cause and remained one of the best-known musical symbols of the Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrint size: \u003c\/strong\u003e8.5\" x 11.5\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFull text of the print\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Farmer and his Son's return from a visit to the CAMP.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFather and I went down to camp,\u003cbr\u003eAlong with Captain Gooding,\u003cbr\u003eAnd there we see the men and boys\u003cbr\u003eAs thick as hasty pudding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle keep it up,\u003cbr\u003eYankey doodle dandy,\u003cbr\u003eMind the music and the step\u003cbr\u003eAnd with the girls be handy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd there we see a thousand men,\u003cbr\u003eAs rich as 'Squire David,\u003cbr\u003eAnd what they wasted every day,\u003cbr\u003eI wish it had been saved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 'lasses they eat every day,\u003cbr\u003eWould keep an house a winter;\u003cbr\u003eThey have as much that I'll be bound,\u003cbr\u003eThey eat it when they're mind to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd there we see a swamping gun,\u003cbr\u003eLarge as a log of maple,\u003cbr\u003eUpon a ducid little cart,\u003cbr\u003eA load for father's cattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd every time they shoot it off,\u003cbr\u003eIt takes a horn of powder,\u003cbr\u003eAnd makes a noise like father's gun,\u003cbr\u003eOnly a nation louder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI went as nigh to one myself,\u003cbr\u003eAs 'Siah's underpinning;\u003cbr\u003eAnd father when as nigh again,\u003cbr\u003eI thought the duce was in him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCousin Simon grew so bold,\u003cbr\u003eI thought he would have cock'd it;\u003cbr\u003eIt scar'd me so I shriek'd it off,\u003cbr\u003eAnd hung by father's pocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd captain Davis had a gun,\u003cbr\u003eHe kind of clapt his hand on't,\u003cbr\u003eAnd stuck a crooked stabbing iron\u003cbr\u003eUpon the little end on't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd there I see a pumpkin shell,\u003cbr\u003eAs big as mother's bason,\u003cbr\u003eAnd every time they touch'd it off,\u003cbr\u003eThey scamper'd like the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI see a little barrel too,\u003cbr\u003eThe heads were made of leather,\u003cbr\u003eThey knock upon with little clubs,\u003cbr\u003eAnd call'd the folks together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd there was captain Washington,\u003cbr\u003eAnd gentlefolks about him,\u003cbr\u003eThey say he's grown so tarnal proud,\u003cbr\u003eHe will not ride without them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe got him on his meeting clothes,\u003cbr\u003eUpon a slapping stallion,\u003cbr\u003eHe set the world along in rows,\u003cbr\u003eIn hundreds and in millions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flaming ribbons in his hat,\u003cbr\u003eThey look'd so taring fine ah,\u003cbr\u003eI wanted pockily to get,\u003cbr\u003eTo give to my Jemimah.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI see another snarl of men,\u003cbr\u003eA digging graves they told me,\u003cbr\u003eSo tarnal long, so tarnal deep,\u003cbr\u003eThey 'tended they should hold me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf scar'd me so I hook'd it off,\u003cbr\u003eNor stopt as I remember,\u003cbr\u003eNor turn'd about 'till I got home,\u003cbr\u003eLock'd up in mother's chamber.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYankey doodle, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The History List","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52450369601838,"sku":"REVWAR-PRINT-YANKEE-RETURN-FROM-CAMP","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1185\/2944\/files\/IMG_2852.webp?v=1786674708","url":"https:\/\/store.thehistorylist.com\/products\/the-yankee-s-return-from-camp-song-lyrics","provider":"The History List","version":"1.0","type":"link"}