Thorn, John. “Play: Yankee Doodling.” New York Folklore, vol. 35: 1-2, 2009. p. 28.
Summary
In the years before the Revolution made it
America’s patriotic anthem, “Yankee Doodle”
was a song of derision that the British
heaped upon ignorant colonists hoping to
attain foppish stature by aping English gentlemen.
