Yankee Doodle
Lyrics © 2013 Kay Thode
- Tune
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Written by
- Kay Thode
- Gaggle
- Seattle
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Yankee Doodle wants to know
Everything you’re doing:
The books you check out, what you buy,
The web sites you are using.
Yankee Doodle calls it terror
Depending on conditions,
Like the color of your skin
And political positions.
Chorus:
Yankee Doodle, stay on top.
Yankee Doodle, righteous.
The laws do not apply to us
‘Cause we’re by far the mightiest.
Yankee Doodle hates dissent,
Says that’s not patriotic.
We say if you crush dissent
Your reign is quite despotic.
Yankee Doodle’s henchman Ashcroft
Hates us for our freedoms.
As for First Amendment rights,
He doesn’t think we need ’em.
Chorus
Yankee Doodle wants to rule
The world and thinks he’ll try it.
The only think he needs for that
Is We the People quiet.
additional verses
Yankee Doodle’s Patriot Act
Got no votes from the braver.
The others went along with it
For fear of losing favor.
Chorus:
Yankee Doodle, got your way,
Yankee Doodle, clever,
Lied and wreak great havoc, but
We’ll end your reign forever.
Yankee Doodle terrified
The so-called liberal voices.
Congress folks need more backbone
And to make better choices.
Chorus:
Yankee Doodle’s Patriot Act
Passed without being read first.
Now it’s time to repeal it–
Make sure that it’s reversed
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