Why that's a doodle bug, my child Who lives alone, remote and wild.
The only plan allowed by law Is to lure him forth upon a straw, For the doodle bug is a misanthrope And otherwise is sure to elope.
That's the way they blustered when they thought they were so handy, But Farragut steamed up one day and gave them Doodle Dandy.
They christened themselves Punkey Doodle and Jollapin, from the chorus of this, and immediately afterwards I played with them on Archie's bed.
There was maccaroni soup, which reminded Lucy at once of the singular sort of feather which “that Yankee Doodle boy” had stuck in his cap.
I called one Doodle and the other Dandy, because papa gave them to me on Decoration Day.
Get your cap and hurry up," and Bert rushed off to the donkey barn to put Doodle and Dandy in harness.
Well, I thought Doodle Dandy was near enough red, white, and blue," said Dorothy.
Then the three started off together, and when they reached the Shady Forest, Twinkle Tail looked back and saw Henny Penny and Cocky Doodle coming up the Old Cow Path dressed in their Sunday clothes.
Please tell Henny Penny and Cocky Doodle that they're invited, and ask Goosey Lucy and Turkey Tim to come, too.
So the little rabbit didn't wait, but hopped along until he came to the edge of the forest, when he started to hop across the Sunny Meadow to the Old Barn Yard where Henny Penny and Cocky Doodle lived all the year 'round.
Cocky Doodle made a pretty speech, wishing the Twinkle Tails a long life and a happy one, in which all the little people of the forest joined him.
It did not take the bunny long to get the coffee; the monkey doodlegentleman who kept the store wrapping it up for him in a paper that had been twisted around a lollypop candy.
And he was then the bravest dog that beat time the swiftest, and footed Yankee Doodle the nimblest.
They said I ground up Yankee Doodle and Old Hundred together, all in a hodge-podge, so I never sings to no one now but the dumb brutes in the stable, when they gits melancholy of a rainy day.
Then Johnny sent a regiment, big words and looks to bandy, Whose martial band, when near the land, played "Yankee doodle dandy.
Old Johnny's face, to his disgrace, was flushed with beer and brandy, E'en while he swore to sing no more this Yankee doodle dandy.
Then down he sate in burly state, and blustered like a grandee, And in derision made a tune called "Yankee doodle dandy.
Yankee Doodle Dandy; Mind the music and your step And round the house be handy.
If Doodle must be meddling, why, There's only this to do: Select the black spot in his eye And let the daylight through!
Every Doodle has got a gun, Belt, and bayonet, bright and new; Kill a Doodle, and capture two!
Them that can't read or don't know the tune can sing Yankee Doodle or Hail Columbia.
Yankee Doodle went to town Upon a little pony; He stuck a feather in his hat, And called it Macaroni.
My dame has lost her shoe, And master's found his fiddling stick, Sing doodle doodle doo!
Yankee Doodle Yankee Doodlewent to town, Upon a little pony; He stuck a feather in his hat, And called it Macaroni.
Yankee Doodle went to town Yet didn't you see, yet didn't you see Young Lambs to sell!
While master fiddles his fiddling stick, For dame and doodle doo.
Yankee Doodle came to town, Yankee Doodle dandy, He stuck a feather in his cap And called it sugar-candy.
Doodle doo, or Cock a doodle doo; a childish appellation for a cock, in imitation of its note when crowing.
I remember the Widder Doodle did, but I never approved of it.
Josiah seemed to enjoy hisen the best that ever wuz, and to my horrow he took both on 'ern in his right hand and begun to play Yankee Doodle on 'em.
