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Show "Yankee Doodle" Abroad In ISM In 1HH the Americans met the English to arrange terms ending the War of 1UI2 In (ihent, Belgium, and the city of Client asked the American Amer-ican envoys for the tune of the chief American song In order to play the English and the American national music together. Hut It appeared that none of tho Americans was musical, so Henry Clay, one of our ambassadors-, called bis servant and the musical negro whistled them "Yankee Doodle," the notes were copied down, and "Yankee Doodle" was first played ns Amer-lcu'i Amer-lcu'i national onu abroad. |