Rimbault later wrote that it was a country dance found under the title “ Kitty Fisher's Jig,” written in triple time, but that it was afterwards altered to common time, although the title remained the same (he printed what he said was the Walsh tune in the magazine Leisure Hour, see abc below). Rimbault (1876) to have been a printing in Walsh's Collection of Dances for the year 1750 where it he said it appears as " Fisher's Jig" (a reference to the ‘notorious lady’, Kitty Fisher, who died in 1771). The earliest appearance of the complete melody was claimed by Dr. The Irish musicologist Flood (1906) maintains "Yankee Doodle" derives from a Jacobite era (early 18th century) song called " All the Way to Galway (1)." Claims have also been made for Spanish and even Hungarian musical origins.
Elson ( The National Music of America, 1899) finds that the first part of the melody was once quite familiar to Dutch musicians and “has been used in Holland from time immemorial as a children’s song,” however, the second part was not known.
There is some mystery and controversy about the exact origins of one of the most famous tunes in American tradition, "Yankee Doodle". AB (Bayard, Johnson, Linscott): AAB (Kerr): AABB (most versions): AABBA'A'B'B' (Kennedy). D Major (most versions): D Mixolydian (Robinson): G Major (Linscott): C Major (Kerr): A Major (Buckley). AKA – "Yankee Doodle." English (originally), American Country Dance Tune (2/4 time) or March. and called it Macaroni YANKEE DOODLE DANDY.
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