Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy It’s where I’ve fallen and where I lay. Ashes to ashes, cradle to grave, Where drums roll and the fife played. Where the bell tolls, it tolls for me. Dust to dust pray tell, “It’s Liberty!— It’s Yankee Doodle dandy.” It’s where I lie and where I’ll be When they come to bury me. Cover me, and let me rest in peace. *** Note: The “American Revolutionary War” aka the American War of Independence, took place from April 19, 1775 to September 3, 1783, between Great Britain and the thirteen British colonies in North America. According to a few accounts, when General Cornwallis’s (commander of the British forces) officers surrendered to General George Washington (commander of the Continental Army) at Yorktown, Virginia on October 19, 1781, the retreating, defeated British troops were met by an American band playing “Yankee Doodle.” On September 3, 1783, the “Treaty of Paris” was signed between Great Britain and the United States, ending the American Revolutionary war, and establishing the borders between British North America and the United States of America.