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Father and I went down to camp,
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Along with Captain Gooding;
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And there we saw the men and boys,
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As thick as hasty pudding.
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Yankee doodle, keep it up,
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Yankee doodle dandy;
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Mind the music and the step,
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And with the girls be handy.
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There was Captain Washington
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Upon a slapping stallion,
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A-giving orders to his men,
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I guess there was a million.
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And then the feathers on his hat,
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They looked so' tarnal fin-a,
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I wanted pockily to get
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To give to my Jemima.
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And then we saw a swamping gun,
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Large as a log of maple;
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Upon a deuced little cart,
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A load for father's cattle.
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And every time they shoot it off,
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It takes a horn of powder;
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It makes a noise like father's gun,
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Only a nation louder.
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I went as nigh to one myself,
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As' Siah's underpinning;
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And father went as nigh agin,
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I thought the deuce was in him.
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We saw a little barrel, too,
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The heads were made of leather;
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They knocked upon it with little clubs,
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And called the folks together.
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And there they'd fife away like fun,
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And play on cornstalk fiddles,
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And some had ribbons red as blood,
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All bound around their middles.
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The troopers, too, would gallop up
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And fire right in our faces;
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It scared me almost to death
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To see them run such races.
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Uncle Sam came there to change
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Some pancakes and some onions,
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For' lasses cake to carry home
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To give his wife and young ones.
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