Song · A 1776 town · 1776
Pass it on
Yankee Doodle
90Living historically.
When the British left Boston in March 1776, the band played it at them.
The review
British officers used the song to call colonials fools who thought a feather made them soldiers. The fools kept the song. In March 1776, as the British left Boston, American musicians played it at the retreat.
The score is for that turn. A people that can wear the insult has started to be a people. It is not a hymn, and it is not trying to be one.
Journal
Keep Yankee Doodle in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 90. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 9Industry
A tune and a joke. The making is older than the war. The keeping is the American part.
- 9Household
A street song. Not a lullaby, not a vow.
- 9Piety
No prayer in it. A feather in the hat is the whole theology.
- 9Courage
They took the insult and marched under it. That is nerve with a grin.
- 9Republic
A people laughing at the army that named them, in the army's own tune.
- 9Temperance
A joke, fast enough to march to. Not a rot.
- 9Truth
The mockery is admitted by being stolen. They do not pretend they invented the sneer.
- 9Stewardship
A town still knows it. A child could bang a pot and be in the country.
Where to listen
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Live Historic · Yankee Doodle · 90IMDb
