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Show "Yankee Doodle" an Irish Jig. Mr. W. H. Grattan Flood writes: Will you allow mo to point out to you that tho tune of "Yankee Doodlo" is an oh, Irish Jig of the oarly eighteenth eight-eenth century, well known in Ireland still as "All the Way to Galway?" Your statoment that it was composed by Dr Schuckburgh is a slip. You probably meant that ho wrote tho doggerel words, which Is generally adndtted, but he merely adapted his verses to tho Irish Jig, which wbb printed as "Yankee Doodlo" In 1782, ind was subsequently Introduced by Arnold into his "Two to One." London Lon-don Truth. |