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Show "Yankee Doodle" Is Irish. ' "ntin of the air of "Yankee w,r;,f.- ;HS i)(,n a i.jgtorical' puzzle "f more th;n a hundred years. It b"Bn variously stated that the .' xv-'-s originally set to an old , , t"h n-.irsery song; that it was ;.;,or-n in England in the time of 1. wnd Cromwell, and that it Z'vf f 't arranged to the old jin- y IO.-ket lost her pocket, t K;t!v Fisher fund it." v'1rrvrr' i''!nn' in llis "IHstory of -rif-a;) M us jr. after examining the w'tjy h. o-.unts, admits that the ori-l':": ori-l':": ,po wir is wrapped in mystery. s'n.V not ftn to have occurred to ,.- fj- the investigators that it might 'l'v 7'1 T" ,hat rk'h treasury of mel-c, mel-c, ""''prisefj n the ancient music of -c'i' ''"nt paragraph on ih" y-i'-f :ri. ? iaily newspaper impelled '.iani i:. Furlong, of Chicago, to ad-- r, i'ti'T of inquiry to William 11. o''k,' ,Ki"or- author of the "History f-,i' and the acknowledged li;'TX: i;j 7ll's fffM. His reply to ;; t J-b-nr ;p as follows: I vojrJv.rui'!;i"!'Prfi duly Awarded me j i"1"''''- :,"d I hae much pleasure 'U ,,t;,v",",r'ff 't. if only to vindicate - i.isn origin of 'Yankee Doodle.' ' , "'r'',n Harland merr-lv repeats 'nt-j'Ii!1'''""' ,n-vfl1 as told for the past h tJ', ,:u :;" published accounts of 'h pv. !' "f "a'lee . Doodle' until ticjj v''ar,'s h :,nd Cronnvell Associa-Mr Associa-Mr S:iOV n to be utterly absurd by T?y s,juirf"- of the British mu-'snn'ot mu-'snn'ot vcrse to 'I.ucy Locket' lW fJSSIr,1y have been written rishe'r f, -Br 172S. whilst Kitty 'Ta'; '"'ar dr''nitely that the tune fcnov.Vv 7 d 1v' is Ir,sh and was Vv&- to r ." yoar 17r' as 'A11 ,h0 "oaipj .!Wa-v'' The song of 'Yankee !" ITS; ,r;:s. ar-tod to this Irish air '-; tr ,:h 3 d the earliest refer- Inch-' V ApriI- 176:- when 11 L0"1'- ort'!.': a,s ,he fr,urth air in the 0'lver J. 'The Disappointment.' couinr- 1 s ri-nt,y rails the air cPy uf "aTn0P-' and a manuscript ' l"e Iris), dance tune, dated lToO, is still preserved. It was first printed by Aird. of Glasgow, in 1782. "'Dixie' is also an Irish air. merely arranged by Dan Emmet for Bryant's Minstrels. By the way, Bryant himself, him-self, who ran the Christy Minstrel business in New York in 1859. was an Irishman. His real name was Cornelius Cor-nelius O'Brien, and he died in Brooklyn Brook-lyn in 3902. There were three brothers in the family, Cornelius (N'eill). Daniel and Jerry. Xeill gave the Irish air to Dan Emmet, who sang it in New York in February, lS.M." |