"The Yankee Doodle Blues" <br /><br />Van and Schenck <br /><br />Columbia A3663 <br /><br />June 27, 1922<br /><br />Say, here’s a word I want to say!<br />Say, have you ever been away?<br />Have you ever missed the good old U_ S_ A?<br />When you get that itching in your shoes,<br />Go to any other land you choose,<br />See how quick you get those “Yankee Doodle Blues!”<br />You’re singing<br /><br />There’s no land so grand as my land,<br />From California to Manhattan isle;<br />North and South my sunny skyland,<br />I love ev’ry mile!<br />When I hear “Yankee Doodle”,<br />That melody keeps on ringing in my ear;<br />“Yankee Doodle”<br />That melody makes me stand right up and cheer, “I’m coming!”<br />U_ S_ A I’ll say I love you,<br />Make me lose those “Yankee Doodle Blues!”<br />You’re singing Blues!”<br /><br />They say that Europe’s wonderful with all its ancient junk<br />It’s not as good as Kokomo and Kokomo’s the bunk<br />I couldn’t see old London it was covered by a fog<br />I had to move from Paris ‘cause I couldn’t eat a frog<br />I went from there to old Cologne and started on the rounds<br />But old Cologne don’t smell as sweet and pretty as it sounds<br />A Russian Bolsheviki tried to get my scalp<br />And then I wore my welcome out by sliding down an Alp<br />Hey there Miss Liberty I’ll say you’re a bear<br />And when that custom officer says to me<br />“What do you declare?”
