Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town (feat. Billie Holiday) - Take 1

Yankee Doodle never went to town

I've just discovered the story was phony

Let me give you all the real lowdown

He didn't even own a pony

He was really very short and fat

While in the story, so skinny and bony

And so hungry that he ate his hat

And called the feather, "Macaroni"

Underneath the chestnut tree

He and the blacksmith would sip their tea

Then, he'd bring out his zither for an old lowdown

That's how he went to town

Yankee Doodle tried to leave one day

Took his belongings and mounted his saddle

But he never started on his way

'Cause he didn't have a pony

And the fairy tale is phony

How could Yankee Doodle go to town?