Yankee Doodle Goes to Town (1939)

John Nesbitt: Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : The American Revolution ending in victory! Yankee Doodle triumphant! Freedom is ours forever!

• Narrator : As the years go by, Yankee Doodle goes merrily ahead. Grabbing off new lands. Fighting Indians with one hand and swapping with the other. Charging into the wilderness!

• Narrator : Raw, young Master Doodle stays with it. Taking his whiskey straight and rolling in wealth. Tough as ever!

• Narrator : Into his plush lined parlors of 1860 comes despair and hatred. Proof of every black prophesy that his green democracy has broken to bits.

• Narrator : Once again, to the amazement of the calamity hollers, that thing called the American destiny sweeps Yankee Doodle onward again. Running steel rails through the wilderness. Golden spikes going down with a whoop and a holler. Two oceans linked together!

• Narrator : An era of peace and happiness and pride that steals the jealous envy of the world. The great American Main Street. Confident, cocky Main Street. Monroe Doctrine. No foreign entanglements. The national fairy tale is rags to riches.

• Narrator : Yankee Doodle's fixed up this continent pretty well. When he got off the boat, the place was worth a half a billion. And in a hundred and fifty years, he's raised that ante to three hundred eighty-five billions. He took a wilderness, spun across it six hundred thousand miles of highway. He uses two-thirds of the world's oil. And he gives to his children the mightiest civilization history has ever recorded.

• Narrator : Yes, Yankee Doodle goes to town!