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CC-H.775.048
15 May 1775:33 (542)
Massachusetts Bay. Worcester, May 10. . . [various reports
of action at Lexington] When the second brigade marched out
of Boston to reinforce the first, nothing was played by the
fifes and drums but Yankee Doodle, (which has become their
favourite tune ever since that notable exploit, which did
such honour to the troops of Britain's King, of tarring and
feathering a poor countryman in Boston, and parading with
him through the principal streets, under arms with their
bayonets fixed:) Upon their return to Boston, one asked his
brother officer how he liked the tune now, --"D--n them,
returned he, they made us dance it till we were tired. --
Since which Yankee Doodle sounds less sweet to their ears.
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