YANKEE-DOODLE
\jˈaŋkiːdˈuːdə͡l], \jˈaŋkiːdˈuːdəl], \j_ˈa_ŋ_k_iː_d_ˈuː_d_əl]\
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A famous air, now regarded as American and national. In reality the air is an old English one, called Nankey Doodle, and had some derisive reference to Cromwell. It is said that the brigade under Lord Percy, after the battle of Lexington, marched out of Boston playing this tune in derisive and punning allusion to the name Yankee, and the New Englanders adopted the air in consideration of the fact that they had made the British dance to it. The really national tune of the whole United States, however, is "Hail, Columbia!".
By Daniel Lyons
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