Yankee Doodle guitar tab
Verse and chorus in quarter notes, moving between the top three strings and dipping to the fourth.
- Level
- Easy melody
- Key
- C major
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- ♩ = 116
- Tuning
- Standard, EADGBE
Yankee Doodle
Traditional · arranged by guitarnotation
How to play it
- Bars 1 to 8 are the verse and 9 to 16 the chorus, “Yankee Doodle, keep it up”.
- Bar 7, “called it macaroni”, drops to the open third string for the G, then A at the second fret and the open B.
- The lowest note is the E in bar 12, the second fret of the fourth string, under the chorus's “dandy”.
About the song
Sung since the 1750s and taken up by both sides in the American Revolution. It is the state song of Connecticut.
The melody is in the public domain. This arrangement is ours, and you're welcome to download, print and play it for your own practice.
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