Antedating of "Yankee Doodle"

[Laurence Horn]

>The received scholarly wisdom is that the song was written by the
>British Army surgeon Dr. Richard Schackburg in 1755, so earlier exx.
>are theoretically possible.
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>   JL

I'm still working through "O! my diddling honey"...

LH

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>Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>Yankee Doodle (OED 1768)
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>1767 Andrew Barton _The Disappointment_ 22 (Evans Digital Edition) AIR
>IV. Yankee Doodle. _O! how awful shall I be, When I get de money, I will
>bring it all to dee; O! my diddling honey._ [_Exit, singing the chorus,_
>yankee doodle, &c.
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>Fred Shapiro
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