The New Student's Reference Work/Yankee Doodle

Yankee Doo'dle. This popular air was originally Nankee Doodle, and is as old as the time of Cromwell. It was known in New England before the Revolution, and is said to have been played by the English troops in derisive allusion to the then popular name of the New Englanders; and afterward the New Englanders adopted the air.