Edward Bangs

Edward Bangs (fl. 1775) is the author of the American song "Yankee Doodle". Sourced Yankee Doodle came to townRiding on a pony;Stuck a feather in his capAnd called it Macaroni. "Yankee Doodle", in Nicholas Smith, Stories of Great National Songs (1899) External links The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 2nd ed. (1982), p. 15 The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 2nd ed. (1997), p. 529 Category:Poets from the United States Category:18th century deaths