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Yankee Go Home!!

Greenland will be our posh winterland plaza
Blueprints unfold for a Riviera Gaza
Just hot air baloneyism
Or old-fashioned colonialism?
Panamanians shout leave! Viva la Raza!

Branded Y2K

Yankee-two-kilo
Yankee-two-kilo
Can you read me?
Y2K
The year 2000's on the way
The new millennium's almost here
To write January 1, 2000 will be weird
Star Trek's beam me up Scottie was
A far out idea
But now the space shuttle goes up
Several times a year
The crew of seven went up that day
(don't look up to watch it burn)
they had no fear, now their view from heaven
Is crystal clear
When January 1 comes will
My computer freeze?
Will I get my money from the
ATM with the greatest of ease?
Did I store any staples and canned
Goods to keep my mind at ease?
Will I be able to trade in the
Stock market as I please?
Y2K
Yankee-two-kilo
Calling all earthlings!
Come aboard
The space center on the moon is
Ready (it has so much more
More than you'd ever imagined before)
Don't look back to watch it burn

Yankee Doodle In King Joe B's Court

Feathered hat, fife and drum
    Doodle's entrance a smash
  Though in the air, all around him
    float sweet marijuana and hash

  'Young lady,' begins Doodle - O, the naivete!
    'I'm a he not a she,' the young thing announces
  'Are you non-binary, (you) kwir coquette?' 

  Doodle scratches his head, looks to heaven
    What strange folks are these, he wonders
  Where he is she and she is he... Who is me?
    All is folly! ~ the race now riven asunder

A Yankee Doodle Senior

I'm a Yankee Drooling Senior
Trousers pulled up nipple high
Food stains on my shirt and in my hair
Happy but I don't know why

Got to see my family doctor
Really painful when I pee
All you people hear me farting
Better hide the children
Cause I am about to let one fly



(To the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Apologies to George M. Cohan.)

Yankee Doodle Detonated

Brave young men, missions of laughter

          Returnees ~ wounded ever after

Yankee Doodle Returns To Town

Yankee Doodle
had a poodle,
and its name was Tony.
He fed this dog on fish and chips
and lots of macaroni.

Yankee Doodle
lacks a poodle.
Now he has a terrier.
Every day it learns new tricks.
The more it learns, the merrier.

Yankee Doodle One-Upped

A rich couple went to see two pedigree French poodles

   Sorry, no poodles for sale -- they're busy playing canoodle

The Yankee Game

I watched the Yankee game until
I couldn't stay awake
(Though flipping back to C.S.I.,
A habit I can't break).

So when I heard that they had won
It wasn't a surprise,
'Cause they were in the lead around
The time I closed my eyes.

I felt for all the Cleveland fans
Who witnessed their team lose.
It's hard to swallow that defeat 
At home, despite the booze.

But now there are more games to watch 
So I can root, root, root.
When your team plays, it's much more fun -
Of that, there's no dispute.

At Yankee Stadium

I stared at all the jerseys
Worn by Yogi, Mickey, Lou,
The Babe and Derek Jeter,
Thurman Munson, Roger, too…

And I realized all these Yankees,
Those alive and those who’ve died,
Wore those uniforms, no matter when,
With dignity and pride.

For so many baseball players,
Playing ball was all they knew.
They were lucky that success rewarded
What they loved to do.

At the stadium, we cheered them
For each time they got on base,
With an inkling of whose jersey
Will join others in that case.

A Yankee Cap and a Belt

Now picture this little scene if you can
On our wedding night, a little humour I had planned
Came into the room looking svelte
Wearing only a Yankee cap and a belt
Needless to say it broke the ice and the night turned out grand

Yankee Papa Thirteen

it was like being inside a big machine that wants
to be noisy and disrupt your senses 

and the blades whirred at speeds I could'nt see, 
over the rice fields and boots of the dead and 
the cartidge-case stairs thumped their tattoo down 
to the heart of the Viet Cong (who were they?) 
guys just like us...

and the explosion rocked the machine and bits of brain
and a pool(blood) crept past our feet... 
and dripped to the water and fields below

and he was shouting something important but i could'nt 
hear, I could'nt hear...the fear had got my throat...the fear,
Jesus I'm sorry but I just could'nt hear...

and everything was going haywire and guys were dying 
and it had all gone wrong... not the way it was meant to be

and who were they who had done this blunderbus work,
mouths agape shooting into the sun?

they were guys,they were guys... just like us

Yankee Spelling

Having no colour honour or even humour
such a shame on you 
liking glamour honour and favour just for weddings
and there the colourist painters
anaemic thoughts let us not be paralysed by our difference
like in the aeroplanes above
we do both now travel 
and dream of the Broadway theatres

(lettuce keep our connexion)

Yankee Drooling Senior

I'm a Yankee Drooling Senior
Trousers pulled up nipple high
Poop stains on my shirt and in my hair
Happy but I don't know why

Got to go to see my doctor
Really painful when I pee
All you people hear me farting
Better hide the children
Cause I am about to let one fly

© Jack Ellison 2013



(To the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Apologies to George M. Cohan.)

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
A Yankee Doodle, do or die
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam
Born on the Fourth of July

I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart
She's my Yankee Doodle joy
Yankee Doodle came to London
Just to ride the ponies
I am the Yankee Doodle Boy

Yankee Birds

them Yankee birds have squeaky words,
our Joh the crow goes AAAAArk,
 when they motor is in park,
theys in the feathers dark,
a cunning old black bird... 
way south in Aus...of cos...
case ya havent heard...

re:"Black Farewell"  Laura Breidenthal

Don Johnson

Early Snow In Yankee Land

Early Snow in Yankee Land

By Elton Camp

How glad I am to live in the Sunny South
Though I must hear, “Well shut my mouth.”

“Youse guys” have an early start this fall
October snow has knocked out power & all

With heavy, wet snow and gusting wind
Limbs have fallen on power lines again

Your planes can’t fly & your cars can’t roll
So on your lives it is taking a heavy toll

You can’t depend on trains to get you back
Downed trees and signals stopped Amtrak

If you Yankees retire & don’t need to earn
Move South and do yourself a good turn

As long as a tornado doesn’t blow you away
You’ll find the South a far better place to stay

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