THE COUNTRY LOVERS; OR, MR. JONATHAN JOLTHEAD'S Courtship with Miss Sally Snapper: AN EXCELLENT NEW SONG, SAID TO BE WRITTEN BY ITS AUTHOR ; And really founded on fact. TUNE-"YANKEE DOODLE." THE COUNTRY LOVERS, &c. A MERRY tale I will rehearse, Yankee doodle,* keep it up, Mind the musick-mind the step, His father gave him bran new suit, When he was one-and-twenty. Yankee doodle, &c. * Yankee doodle, a ludicrous musical air, which I be. lieve was first invented by the English, in derision of the Americans, whom they styled "Yankees." The Americans frequently wrote ludicrous songs to this tune. This chorus is quoted from a song, written, I believe, in Boston. Moreover, sir, I'd have you know, Yankee doodle, &c. A hundred he could count, 'tis said, And by good Christian parents bred, Yankee doodle, &c. He'd been to school to Master Drawl, To spell a-bom-in-a-ble, And when he miss'd, he had to crawl, Straight under master's table. Yankee doodle, &c. One day his mother said to him, "My darling son, come here, "Come fix you up, so neat and trim, "And go a courting, dear." Yankee doodle, &c. |