Another Yankee Doodle

Yankee Doodle had a mind

To whip the Southern traitors,

Because they didn't choose to live

On codfish and potatoes,

Yankee Doodle, doodle-doo,

Yankee Doodle dandy,

And 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," he says, "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 practiced 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 right now

To take a drop of brandy.

Yankee Doodle, oh! for shame,

You're always intermeddling;

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.