Song · A 1776 town · 1776
Yankee Doodle
90Sit with it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
When the British left Boston in March 1776, the band played it at them.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
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Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
British officers used the song to call colonials fools who thought a feather made them soldiers. The fools kept the song. In March 1776, as the British left Boston, American musicians played it at the retreat.
The score is for that turn. A people that can wear the insult has started to be a people. It is not a hymn, and it is not trying to be one.
Folio
Keep Yankee Doodle in the record.
The date, your number, and one sentence.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Where to listen
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
9/10
A tune and a joke. The making is older than the war. The keeping is the American part.
Household
9/10
A street song. Not a lullaby, not a vow.
Piety
9/10
No prayer in it. A feather in the hat is the whole theology.
Courage
9/10
They took the insult and marched under it. That is nerve with a grin.
Republic
9/10
A people laughing at the army that named them, in the army's own tune.
Temperance
9/10
A joke, fast enough to march to. Not a rot.
Truth
9/10
The mockery is admitted by being stolen. They do not pretend they invented the sneer.
Stewardship
9/10
A town still knows it. A child could bang a pot and be in the country.
Live historicallySing one verse. Then say who the joke was on, and who kept it.