Edward Bangs
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Edward Bangs (fl. 1775) is the author of the American song "Yankee Doodle".
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Sourced
edit- Yankee Doodle came to town
Riding on a pony;
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it Macaroni.- "Yankee Doodle", in Nicholas Smith, Stories of Great National Songs (1899)
External links
edit- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 2nd ed. (1982), p. 15
- The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 2nd ed. (1997), p. 529