Bert, Here is the paragraphs that you were referring to. You did pretty good on pulling that out. It's amazing what we can remeber!

Burl Ives Songbook (Ballantine Books 50cents 1953):

This is the most famous song that originated in this war. Its tune was used in ensuing years for many political and social events. It never goes out of fashion. The exact origin of both the tune and the words is the subject of controversy. We know the tune was sung by the Cavaliers in the time of Charles II, to a text which ridiculed two fashionable courtesans of the day:

Lucky Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it. Not a bit of money in it, Only binding round it.

We know the tune was and still is sung in Holland as a harvest song, to doggerel verse that refer to the harvester's pay: all the buttermilk they could drink and one tenth of the grain they reaped.

Yank Dudel, Dodel down, Diddle, dudel, lanther, Yanke vivor, vover vown, Botermilk und tanther

The word "doodle" refers traditionally to a dull-witted fellow. As for "yankee," one explanation is that the Indians, in trying to pronounce "english," got no closer than "Yengee." Another explanation comes from an officer in General Burgoyne's army, who wrote, "It is derived from a Cherokee word, eankke, which signifies coward and slave. This epithet, Yankee, was bestowed upon the residents of New England by Virginians for not assisting them in a war with the Cherokee.

Not the definitive historical source, I'm sure judy