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Sheet music to "The Yanks Started Yankin'" Vintage Audio: The Yanks Started Yankin'
Updated - Sunday, 6 April, 2003

Available here is a version of the popular 1918 satirical U.S. wartime song (The Russians Were Rushin') The Yanks Started Yankin'.

Published by the Broadway Music Corporation the song was written by Carey Morgan with music by Chas McCarron.

Click here to listen to a version performed by Arthur Fields in 1918 (MP3 Format 1,073kb).

A "Dixie" (from the Hindi degci) was an army cooking pot.

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