The tune of “Yankee Doodle” is thought to be much older than the lyrics, being well known across western Europe, including England, France, Netherlands, Hungary, and Spain.[3] The melody of the song may have originated from an Irish tune “All the way to Galway” in which the second strain is identical to Yankee Doodle.[5][6] The earliest words of “Yankee Doodle” came from a Middle Dutch harvest song which is thought to have followed the same tune, possibly dating back as far as 15th-century Holland.[7][8] It contained mostly nonsensical words in English and Dutch: “Yanker, didel, doodle down, Diddle, dudel, lanther, Yanke viver, voover vown, Botermilk und tanther.”[3][4][8] Farm laborers in Holland were paid “as much buttermilk (Botermelk) as they could drink, and a tenth (tanther) of the grain”.[4][8]
The term Doodle first appeared in English in the early 17th century[9] and is thought to be derived from the Low German dudel, meaning “playing music badly”, or Dödel, meaning “fool” or “simpleton”. The Macaroni wig was an extreme fashion in the 1770s and became slang for being a fop.[10] Dandies were men who placed particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisure hobbies. A self-made dandy was a British middle-class man who impersonated an aristocratic lifestyle. They notably wore silk strip cloth, stuck feathers in their hats, and carried two pocket watches with chains—”one to tell what time it was and the other to tell what time it was not”.[11]
The macaroni wig was an example of such Rococo dandy fashion, popular in elite circles in Western Europe and much mocked in the London press. The term macaroni was used to describe a fashionable man who dressed and spoke in an outlandishly affected and effeminate manner. The term pejoratively referred to a man who “exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion”[12] in terms of clothes, fastidious eating, and gambling.
In British conversation, the term “Yankee doodle dandy” implied unsophisticated misappropriation of upper-class fashion, as though simply sticking a feather in one’s cap would transform the wearer into a noble.[13] Peter McNeil, a professor of fashion studies, claims that the British were insinuating that the colonists were lower-class men who lacked masculinity, emphasizing that the American men were womanly.[14
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Landsdale spoke with General Cabell and J Edgar Hoover on the phone about William Greeer.
Hoover began “we have introduced him to several scenarios including driving odd jobs for various Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and other sorts of diplomatic and business officials with various designed tasks made up, for instance one was obviously though badly hidden secret meeting of the IRA, another was with banking officials tied to Republic of Ireland nationalists types.”
“In all cases” J. Edgar Hoover continued “Greer expressed dismay at being asked to be courteous to these types.”
“He has sensitivities toward the Brahim and against the Irish terrorist, I think we can broach the matter with him and begin to feel him out” I had said after one of the “chance” encounters Greer had had with a client.
“Greer was approached and understands the need to keep the peace and he has respect for the officials he serves.
He has been asked to slow on the parade route and expect shots. He has a revolver if a final shot becomes necessary. We have promised him investigators will immediately seize all available film and that we can protect him in this.
He knows the risk and is willing to take it.
“He like us expects that the patsy my brother has a a School Book Depository will immediately be arrested and it will be a short and pre planned dispositive chain of facts that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin” another voice said.
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