Edward Bangs

Edward Bangs (fl. 1775) is the author of the American song "Yankee Doodle".

Sourced

• Yankee Doodle came to town
  Riding on a pony;
  Stuck a feather in his cap
  And 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