Patriotic Songs
A Toast
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Let Tyrants Shake
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Yankee Doodle
Father and I went down to camp
Along with Captain Gooding, 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. There was Captain Washington Upon a slapping stallion A-giving orders to his men -- There must have been a million. Then I saw a swamping gun As large as logs of maple Upon a very little cart, A load for Father's cattle. Every time they shot it off It took a horn of powder And made a noise like father's gun Only a nation louder. There I saw a wooden keg With heads made out of leather; They knocked upon it with some sticks To call the folks together. Then they'd fife away like fun And play on cornstalk fiddles, And some had ribbons red as blood All bound around their middles. I can't tell you all I saw -- They kept up such a smother. I took my hat off, made a bow, And scampered home to mother. |
Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier
Here I sit on Buttermilk Hill,
Who could blame me cry me fill? And every tear would turn a mill; Johnny has gone for a soldier. Shool, shool, shool a-roo, Shool a-sac-a-rac-ca bib-ba-lib-ba-boo. If I should die for Sally Bobolink Come bib-ba-lib-ba-boo so rare-o. I'd sell my clock, I'd sell my reel, Likewise I'd sell my spinning wheel To buy my love a sword of steel; Johnny has gone for a soldier. Shool, shool, shool a-roo, Shool a-sac-a-rac-ca bib-ba-lib-ba-boo. If I should die for Sally Bobolink Come bib-ba-lib-ba-boo so rare-o |