英语词汇yankee doodle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Yankee Doodle. Legend has it that during the French and In- dian War, the shabbily dressed troops of Colonel Thomas Fitch of Norfolk, Connecticut, inspired a British army surgeon with musical talents, a Dr. Sheckburgh or Shackburg, to write the derisive song “Yankee Doodle.” The story is recounted in the Federal Writer’s Project Connecticut (1938): “According to local tradition, Elizabeth Fitch, on leaving the house to bid goodbye to her brother [Colonel Fitch], was dismayed by the ill-sorted costumes of the ‘cavalry.’ Exclaiming, ‘You must have uniforms of some kind,’ she ran into the chicken yard, and returned with a handful of feathers announcing, ‘Soldiers should wear plumes,’ and directed each soldier to put a feather in his cap. When Sheckburgh saw Fitch’s men arriving at Fort Crailo, Rensselaer, New York, he is reputed to have exclaimed, ‘Now stab my vitals, they’re macaronis!’ sarcastically applying the slang of the day for fop, or dandy, and proceeded to write the song, which instantly caught popular fancy.” There is no firm proof of this theory about the origin of the song, which ironi- cally came to be a popular song of patriot troops during the Revolutionary War. There are said to be hundreds of verses to the song. Before the Civil War, the tune, identified with New England, was often hissed off the stage in the South. See frozen yankee doodle.

词汇	yankee doodle
词源	Yankee Doodle. Legend has it that during the French and In- dian War, the shabbily dressed troops of Colonel Thomas Fitch of Norfolk, Connecticut, inspired a British army surgeon with musical talents, a Dr. Sheckburgh or Shackburg, to write the derisive song “Yankee Doodle.” The story is recounted in the Federal Writer’s Project Connecticut (1938): “According to local tradition, Elizabeth Fitch, on leaving the house to bid goodbye to her brother [Colonel Fitch], was dismayed by the ill-sorted costumes of the ‘cavalry.’ Exclaiming, ‘You must have uniforms of some kind,’ she ran into the chicken yard, and returned with a handful of feathers announcing, ‘Soldiers should wear plumes,’ and directed each soldier to put a feather in his cap. When Sheckburgh saw Fitch’s men arriving at Fort Crailo, Rensselaer, New York, he is reputed to have exclaimed, ‘Now stab my vitals, they’re macaronis!’ sarcastically applying the slang of the day for fop, or dandy, and proceeded to write the song, which instantly caught popular fancy.” There is no firm proof of this theory about the origin of the song, which ironi- cally came to be a popular song of patriot troops during the Revolutionary War. There are said to be hundreds of verses to the song. Before the Civil War, the tune, identified with New England, was often hissed off the stage in the South. See frozen yankee doodle.
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