Yankee Doodle: notes for 8 instruments
“Fath'r and I went down to camp…” Pick your instrument. Each page shows the notes in the easiest key that fits it, with a play-along player and a print sheet.
- PianoLetters · C majorE4–F5 Medium
- KalimbaTabs · C majorE4–F5 Medium
- RecorderLetters · B♭ majorD4–E♭5 Medium
- FluteLetters · C majorE4–F5 Medium
- ViolinLetters · C majorE4–F5 Medium
- ClarinetLetters · C major (written)E3–F4 Medium
- TrumpetValves · C major (written)E4–F5 Medium
- Alto SaxLetters · C major (written)E4–F5 Medium
Not on bells & xylophone, harmonica: no key keeps every note on those instruments without sharps, flats or bends.
Words (first verse)
Fath'r and I went down to camp Along with Captain Goodwin, And
there we saw the men and boys, As thick as hasty pudding.
Yankee doodle keep it up, Yankee doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy.
About this song
- Melody
- Traditional, 1782
- Words
- Traditional, 1909 (first verse shown)
- Public domain
- Melody 1782, words 1909: first published before 1931.
- Source
- Heart Songs Dear to the American People (Chapple, 1909), p. 382, “Yankee Doodle” (1909)