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EJMP.776.032
10 May 1776:41,42 (3/123)
[M'Fingal, continued]
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Did not our troops show much discerning,
And skill your various arts in learning?
Outwent they not each native Noodle
By far in playing Yanky doodle;
Which, as 'twas your New-England tune,
'Twas marvellous they took so soon?
And ere the year was fully thro',
Did not they learn to foot it too.
And such a dance as ne'er was known,
For twenty mile on end lead down?"
Was there a Yanky trick you knew,
They did not play as well as you?
Did they not lay their heads together,
And gain your art to tar and feather,
When Col'nel Nesbitt thro' the town,
In triumph bore the country clown?
Oh, what a glorious work to sing
The vet'ran troops of Britain's King,
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