Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town Lyrics - Billie Holiday

Arthur Freed / Bernie Hanighan 

Yankee Doodle never went to town 

I just discovered the story was phony 

Let me give you all the real low-down 

He didn't even own a pony 

He was really very short and fat 

While in the story so skinny and moany 

And so hungry that he ate his hat 

And called the felt macaroni 

Underneath the chestnut tree 

He and the blacksmith would sip that tea 

Then he'd bring out his uniform down 

That's how he went to town 

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Yankee Doodle tried to leave one day 

Took his belongings and mounted his saddle 

But he never got it on his way 

Cause he didn't have a pony 

And the fairy tale is phony 

How could Yankee Doodle go to town? 

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