Show r j ORIGIN O Y YANKEE IEE I OS 1 os kno know v t the hc Mo of MORT The Banner and Francis ley Ite but Qt of the older national na tong or of Yankee Doodle Doode how many marlY t an tell WIe tbt history Mather r how few stub tp think that it ever eyer had a abt l bt il taken for tor granted as It Is and part and aJ parcel el of Americans as asit asit it from babYhood t QUI Olio tradition ha has It t tl at both words and rush k where of American composition tion in days but the verses are indisputably indisputable Uncle Saras Sams neither the United States nor j any other country can read its title clear to the rollicking old tune I Buckingham Smith h while secretary I of the American AmeriC D l legation gatlon at Madrid In 18 wrote to i au American o an I that Yankee Doo oodles les mu music c b bore re a aronS strong ronS resemblance to a populAr aito air of BiRt Biscay lY and that a professor from fromi I i I H Spain had recognized It asi a l e eing tug ing mu much h like the arl ancient i nt sword dance danee d rin in solemn occasions by the pee peo I pie lc of an Seb tian ThE Professor sa sass s the tune varies i in those provI wrote Mr r Smith and he proposes e In a couple of months to tl give Gin me the changes as they are to tobe be In u the different towns town Our I air certainly has its orIgin in inthe inthe the music of the freE fr Pyrenees the Um Brat strains identically are of the heroic i parta ot of brave old Biscay j Louis X Account But to checkmate Mr Smiths enthusiastic enthusiastic claim for the origin of 01 the tune we have Louis account of If his country countr mens behavior when travel traveling traveling ing with him OJ oil the Mississippi U the they heard Am Americans ring ing Yankee Doodle My companions str straight straightway ight way fell feU to capering and dancing he says saB for tor they had recognized an air familiar In our native nathe land one played In the dances of old Hungary Again both the French and the i Dutch Io lay claim to the melodY For t the south ot of France knew It ft asan age song while in the Land of Dikes according to the tale of one old Hol Hollander Hollander lander ix hr the days when the Dutch harvesters received for Wages as muc much buttermilk as they could and a tenth ot of the grain rea d to thIs old tune tuDe sin ain Ilia the we r Yaa ker doodle iii wn Diddle dudel dudeI t Yanke vown rioter Boter and anthor beIng thus surprisingly ly at home ono one the continent from Ue the North sea to the the tAe musIc ip ie English En U b p property lerty The earliest trace of it inn print Collection of Dances for the Year 17 1750 O Here it Is written in G time and Is known as rs Jig Jib But besides being used uRd under tJ as a 8 dance tune it had for years before 1750 1150 bO been n crooned by En m to their babies to the nu ry verses Lucy Luu Locket lost her pocket Kitty Fisher it Nothing in it nothing on it 1 But the binding round it And there was a Vt Iti r he in the e In a ps wh e lose 1011 Is j exploited was Wa not Luc Lucy and f socket alas openly that there was Not a bit of oC money Joney in It A Only binding r round und it It is noticeable that the nat cr or occurs an in both ji jig and rhyme is not significance ct fr for Kitty fisher was a real of sorila notoriety According to U a let et of old i s published ed probably by the I famous Holler and depicting well trial known knon characters ot of time Miss KItty was vas a noted member of de of that period and in a n likelihood l lent nt h her r name to both dance ce tune and nursery 80 soA bt be true as it seems seem reason reasonable able to o believe the tune tunc Is fairly welt carried back k another hundred years to 1550 thE days ays of Roundhead and Cavalier Credence nay then thon well ell be given to the tradition which retakes NUllee Cromwell the conspicuous figure in the 8 stanza tanza Yankee Doe Doo le Je came to town Upon a Kentish pony He stuck a feather In his hat And Anc caned called It macaroni Story says that after att t thc tc uprising I against Charles ill once Ode erode into in I Ito to Oxford mounted upon n steed which may well hate bp bean n Kent I Is horses of that extraction are areso I Iso so his single plume fast cued into a sort of knot which was de rl l it n df the fig figure re thus cut by the Puritan l leader ad r the Cavaliers sang the lines JInes quoted d There Is another tale le tOld in En England land tl of 1 the q Jig that about the middle of they century Ui there rc stood tood in London on in the citY proper where int in t a il neighborhood dOf of the fa fan n B h voh a n u This dally nt at U the hour ot of 11 1 played anIonS anion several melodIes the ai I an Doodle Some fifty arn an Interested American tried to to qa the tite story to it its source and learn le fie locality of the c jock oc I But his qu quest st was vain Nothing den and no oC j the building could be round found The pie story that such a thing had been I was a time athea to be e I or red ted at t will ilI ilIThe The tune tuno having been thus familIar in ou mother country it is if not sur surp p that It should have been brou t across the tha water In colony lony days Nor perhaps ps in Vie view of its s pop popularity 01 on the European continent ought surprise to he be that the I simple jr air shOuld have laId suck a anone st none ng held of the young nation nion 1 f the ances S birth r are of int est st And strIkingly l to t e C I Pant alt of tho tun tunes E r In Arl or of the year 1773 15 General and six or of the ov had planned several ral expeditions against the French Ou One of 01 these Forts Niagara was to be by Governor Shirley of Massachusetts I The British h I Part purt of Shirleys force encamped at t Fort ratio on the eastern bank of I the Hudson rier river l a little south of Al i ban As lort forthe colonies for Wen been cheerfully respond responded ed to b by New York New Jersey and I New England in early June the 1 troops began to pour in company after company y I s1 a moU motley y assemblage of mc men 1 never before thronged together on such as an occa lon thought one who wrote I of the scene en ss such an example c may rouy be found i ih l he c ragged regiment jl of Sir John Fald alT mOrry m rry and 4 a fous in mon WOUld hav have o rt i ilax lax d the gravity of an see the descendants of oC the Puritans murch ing to take theIr on left or of I Ithe the British me with itU long coats sonic some with short coats and some with COt Q At CI iI led as the rainbow seine with their hair ball cropped like the soldiers of Cromwell ell c rl flowed around Amusing to the British Small wonder r was it therefore that I their march mareb their and I Ithe the whole 1 of their troops furnished mutter matter of r amusement to the I endiSC British soldiers Dr Richard Riehard u a I ph physician attached to the staff and famed as a wit was ryas remind reminded ed b the s coo of the Cromwell C cat eIt sode or of a hundred years b before ro e for sitting sit sitting ting down by a wall sweep soar tho where he be was ToS quartered be quickly wrote a parody paroo on Yankee Do Doodle dle and with Vilh much gravity mended it to the nt n as one Q tl the most celebrated el br ted airs of oC martial mu music music sic The joke took ook 1 0 th the no small amusement of f th the Brother Jonathan pronounced it nation tine fine and in a few days nothing was wad heard In the provincial camp but the t eE of Yanke D Doodle l must be uI that the lt Off rather successfully uc es fun the lan Ian Sla and character of hC the lint the tune after that day discoursed l musIc In n more nore than once onee Little did dI tm diet t this ak air tb then putto put to the purpose of oC levity and IU rule ule should ever be marked markett for Cor sue sucks high d s Yet In twenty years oom from that time thue Old ld Doodle inspired the hearts of the heroes ot of Bunker Hill HUl and Jn In less than thirty ye years rs Lord corn II and aruti marched into the m lines at Yorktown a atilt lh surrendered surrender tu to iU its lUlas measures res f The burl burlesque ue gang is passing into oblivion though its tune will wUl lief as aslone long lone as the Ule stars attars and stripes shaH wn wave Its verses are are certainly not worth preserving or on account of their wIt or good sense but ut they refer to times which tried menus souls and It itis is interesting Ip iJ this day of at th JQ Opa lar to real read verses which iv xe e every tongue a and more gp Following ing is at a stanza as sung Inthe in the Yankee cirl circles s of Revolutionary days Yankee Doodle Doodie came caDle to town ton Riding on a pony Stuck a feather J hi his hat bat batAnd And called It macaroni Yankee Doodles Birthplace A little south of the Albany on the opposite b bank of the Hudson river Within sight of oC t the e great gleam lug ing capitol and 4 In plain view of ale passing craft still stands in comfort comfortable comfortable able Dutch stolidity the venerable Fot fro t un under r the shadow of wh whole walls wails was written ritten lei years aro a o Famous in this connection it Is alto alae If S its the 01 oldest d O t 9 or r US ha the t t tIt It Is bunt built or of bearIng thee the daF da oc 1630 and brought as ballast ro from main part measures ti ti et by sI 5 f t lon long tM the with the river r and andI I was up nearly 0 years ago h b the original patron I Va Val Rensselaer Ono on o of the tho stones ill in th thc c the h lUon K Y V R H 1642 t RDO nAo The was Va named the after r the me ancestral l seat of the Van eJa m III Holland Its many l oh Iss em lo that It was WA as a as as a dwell In and It is the k old ld building in rte Felted States State loop loopholes holes J left tt to show theIr maul manner or of nd use Two o arc ar stilt stUl to Lo he De seen In the front watt wan of the crano and they plainly show the tbt marks of bullets Each ic made ot tl a block of sandstone bout a atoot toot In one Dire side lk Is dug out s a hole ole ne nearly rl to tn the center from the other side r I Id d a hole ot of modern Pt The tone stone is set Into th the waR wadi The fort fot was somewhat altered r d in fa 1704 by Hendrick a grandson of KiJ taen aen and in lido 1740 a wing was added by bya b ba a gr Johannes Since that time it hs has remained un unchanged changed in outline and pus has beEn con cOI occupied until about two 7 years aS ago when it was purchased sed by bu Palen Hartwell Stroll Strom Of New ley Brunswick NJ N J Mrs ng is prom prominent among thE Daughters Daught rs ot of the Rev Rey Revolution and plans to fit up the old ohl building as a a Daughters of oC the Amer American ican Revolution headquarters and mus mu s eu Philadel phia Ledger |