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Quotes About Yankee Doodle

Flags were everywhere, and in the Square the band was playing "Yankee Doodle." The fifes tooted and the flutes shrilled and the drums came in with rub-a-dub-dub. Yankee Doodle went to town, Riding on a pony, He stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni!
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Yankee Doodle went to town, He wore his striped trousies, He swore he couldn't see the town, There were so many houses.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Yankee Doodle came to townRiding on a pony,He stuck a feather in his hatAnd called it macaroni.Yankee Doodle, keep it up,Yankee Doodle dandy,Mind the music and the step,And with the girls be handy.
~ Anonymous
I'm a Yankee Doodle dandy,A Yankee Doodle do or die;A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam'sBorn on the Fourth of July.
~ George M. Cohan
I believe the average Southerner would rather be found singing "Yankee Doodle" floating on ice in the Arctic Ocean while eating whale blubber with a fingernail file than taking his rolls or biscuits or bread or cornbread other than hot. Hot
~ Unknown