Yankee Doodle

Epcot
Walt Disney World
Orlando, Florida, United States
In Epcot- at the American Adventure Ride- there was this drum corp.

Spirit of America Fife and Drum Corp
The song is Yankee Doodle.

It was very cold on this day- 39F.

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• Walt
• Disney
• World
• Epcot
• Florida
• Drums
• Drum
• corp
• Piccolo
• snare
• America
• Marching
• 1776
• Yankee
• Doodlge

[je25ff]

Like it's a sideshow. Sigh...

[Chazb5046]

Disney took a big fat shit chucked in a classic partiotic tune and this is whats left over

[jamsbruno1]

Hmm this song was made by the Brits to take the piss out of the Americans...just saying :P

[JOHNNYFREEDOMdaREBEL]

THE "MODERN" PEOPLE RUIN THIS VIDEO

[heavyarms01h]

@mickavalon1 Thanks for the explanation! I'm not sure about other military forces, but I think the US Marine Corps band upholds that tradition to this day with their dress uniforms. The other marines wear a very dark blue and the enlisted troops have red piping, but last time I checked the USMC band wears bright red dress uniforms.

[mickavalon1]

the reason their wearing Redcoats is because all military Bandsmen of the period, in all armies, wore the reverse colours of the line infantrys coats, British Bandsmen mainly wore yellow coats as their comrades in the line companies(fighting) wore mainly Red coats with yellow facings

[EmptyBottleTherapies]

@LolFishFail Plus in the early days of the revolution, it was much like the American Civil War...Many confederate soliders and "Color Guards" continued to use their old Blue suits of the Union Army, because there wasn't many official uniforms at the wars' start. American colonists, like their confderate counterparts had two options during the early months and years of war...wear your plain clothes, or wear your old uniform (if you were in the army previously) until new uniforms were available.

[EmptyBottleTherapies]

@LolFishFail The actual reason why these men are wearing Red Coats, is because the British Army used this song as an insult, and the Colonists used it in return as mockery...Kind of like the "N" word with african-americans...originaly a compliment, turned insult, then used by the "slaves" as a term of endearment, and mockery. (not anymore today, but back then it was)

[EmptyBottleTherapies]

@LolFishFail Actualy that is false...Billerica, Massachusetts is the home of the original Yankee Doodle, Thomas Ditson. He was charged with attempting to get a British solider drunk in order to steal his musket (because the British government outlawed the acquisition of new firearms in Massachusetts, and Virginia). The British soliders then tarred and feathered Thomas Ditson in the center of town and then paraded him out of town in exile. Militias from Mass adopted this tune in tribute to him