Yankee Doodle chords by Traditional British American

Chords with lyrics

Yankee Doodle chords
Traditional British / American

G+G             D MajorD
Fath'r and I went down to camp,
 G+G         D7D7
Along with Cap'n Goodin',
  G+G        C majorC
And there we saw the men and boys
  D MajorD       G+G
As thick as hasty puddin'.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

  G+G            D MajorD
And there we saw a thousand men
  G+G        D7D7
As rich as Squire David,
  G+G        C majorC
And what they wasted every day,
 D MajorD        G+G
I wish it could be saved.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

   G+G            D MajorD
The 'lasses they eat it every day,
   G+G         D7D7
Would keep a house a winter;
   G+G         C majorC
They have so much, that I'll be bound,
   D MajorD          G+G
They eat it when they've mind ter.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

  G+G           D MajorD
And there I see a swamping gun
G+G          D7D7
Large as a log of maple,
 G+G      C majorC
Upon a deuced little cart,
 D MajorD         G+G
A augmentedA load for father's cattle.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

  G+G            D MajorD
And every time they shoot it off,
  G+G         D7D7
It takes a horn of powder,
  G+G         C majorC
and makes a noise like father's gun,
D MajorD       G+G
Only a nation louder.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

 G+G           D MajorD
I went as nigh to one myself
  G+G      D7D7
As 'Siah's inderpinning;
  G+G       C majorC
And father went as nigh again,
 D MajorD           G+G
I thought the deuce was in him.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

G+G          D MajorD
Cousin Simon grew so bold,
 G+G              D7D7
I thought he would have cocked it;
  G+G       C majorC
It scared me so I shrinked it off
  D MajorD        G+G
And hung by father's pocket.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

  G+G         D MajorD
And Cap'n Davis had a gun,
  G+G           D7D7
He kind of clapt his hand on't
  G+G        C majorC
And stuck a crooked stabbing iron
 D MajorD       G+G
Upon the little end on't

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

  G+G           D MajorD
And there I see a pumpkin shell
  G+G         D7D7
As big as mother's bason,
  G+G        C majorC
And every time they touched it off
   D MajorD         G+G
They scampered like the nation.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

 G+G          D MajorD
I see a little barrel too,
  G+G           D7D7
The heads were made of leather;
   G+G         C majorC
They knocked on it with little clubs
  D MajorD         G+G
And called the folks together.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

  G+G           D MajorD
And there was Cap'n Washington,
  G+G         D7D7
And gentle folks about him;
   G+G         C majorC
They say he's grown so 'tarnal proud
  D MajorD         G+G
He will not ride without em'.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

  G+G           D MajorD
He got him on his meeting clothes,
 G+G          D7D7
Upon a slapping stallion;
  G+G       C majorC
He sat the world along in rows,
  D MajorD        G+G
In hundreds and in millions.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

  G+G           D MajorD
The flaming ribbons in his hat,
   G+G            D7D7
They looked so tearing fine, ah,
 G+G         C majorC
I wanted dreadfully to get
  D MajorD      G+G
To give to my Jemima.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

 G+G          D MajorD
I see another snarl of men
 G+G            D7D7
A augmentedA digging graves they told me,
  G+G        C majorC
So 'tarnal long, so 'tarnal deep,
   D MajorD         G+G
They 'tended they should hold me.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

  G+G             D MajorD
It scared me so, I hooked it off,
  G+G         D7D7
Nor stopped, as I remember,
  G+G         C majorC
Nor turned about till I got home,
    D MajorD       G+G
Locked up in mother's chamber.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

Lyrics added by the South during the Civil War:

Yankee Doodle went to town
A-riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni.

C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

Father and I went down to camp
Along with Captain Gooding
And there we saw the men and boys
As thick as hasty pudding.
C majorC
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
G+G
Yankee Doodle dandy,
C majorC
Mind the music and the step,
  G+G    D7D7    G+G
And with the girls be handy.

There was Captain Washington
Upon a slapping stallion
A-giving orders to his men
I guess there was a million.

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