2. And there we saw a thousand men
As rich as Squire David
And what they wasted every day,
I wished it could be saved.
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3. There was Captain Washington
Upon a slapping stallion,
A-giving orders to his men,
I guess there was a million.
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4. And then the feathers on his hat,
They looked so very fin-a,
I wanted peskily to get
To give to my Jemima.
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5. And then I see a swamping gun,
Large as a log of maple;
Upon a mighty little cart,
A load for father's cattle.
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6. And every time they fired it off,
It takes a horn of powder;
It makes a noise like father's gun,
Only a nation louder.
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7. And Captain Davis had a gun
He kind of clapt his hand on't
And stuck a crooked stabbing iron
Upon the little end on't.
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8. The troopers, too, would gallop up
And fire right in our faces;
It scared me almost half to death
To see them run such races.
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9. It scared me so I hooked it off
Nor stop as I remember,
Nor turned about till I got home
Locked up in mother's chamber.
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10. Yankee doodle, went to town,
Riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his hat
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