George cohan yankee doodle dandy song

Song composed by George M. Cohan

Not to be confused with the early American song Yankee Doodle.

"The Yankee Doodle Boy", also known as "(I'm a) Yankee Doodle Dandy" is a patriotic song from the Broadway musical Little Johnny Jones, written by George M.

Cohan. The play opened at the Liberty Theater on November 7, 1904. The play concerns the trials and tribulations of a fictional American jockey, Johnny Jones (based on the real-life jockey Tod Sloan), who rides a horse named Yankee Doodle in the English Derby.

Cohan incorporates snippets of several popular traditional American songs into his lyrics of this song, as he often did with his songs. The song was performed by James Cagney in the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy, in which he played Cohan.^[1]

Modern performances and covers

In 2004, the American Film Institute placed the song at No.

71 on its AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs. A version of the song was recorded by Cohan's cont