“Yankee Doodle Dandy”

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A song by George M. Cohan. The refrain begins, “I'm a Yankee Doodle dandy, / A Yankee Doodle, do or die....”

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Ditto Virginia, but in reverse; culturally, northern Virginia is Yankee land (but with gun shops).
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And this big box that encloses him is only an exaggeration of his regular nerd-dandy clothes.
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The flag that was unveiled at Yankee Stadium 19 days after 9/11 was a different, much larger one.
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The major question for the Republican Party going forward is what all these Yankee newcomers will mean for its direction.
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But I still visit the Met when a great painting is brought from Europe, although without adding my own doodle to it.
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A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
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Then with your victorious legions you can march south and help drive the Yankee invaders from the land.
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The poor dandy showed a pair of straight coat-tails instanter, and the whole table joined in a "tremenjous" roar.
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Here the conversation ended, and the Yankee took up his quarters for two weeks.
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Like many other Yankee notions, it did not thrive here, and the humming of those bees soon ceased.
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