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Yankee Doodle
     
Yankee Doodle
a US song which first became popular with American soldiers during the American Revolutionary War and is now often sung by children. It begins: Yankee Doodle went to town,/Riding on a pony;/Stuck a feather in his hat,/And called it macaroni.
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