yankee doodle (laurie anderson remix)

if if if if
	if you can understand
if if if if
	if you can understand
if if if if
	yankee doodle dandy
if you can understand
	"yankee doodle dandy"
  				[who is yankee doodle?]
if you can understand
	if if if if

yankee doodle went to town
	if you can understand
"yankee doodle went to town"
	if you can understand
riding on a pony
	if if if if
yankee doodle went to town
				[why is he a yankee?]
riding on a pony
	if you can understand

"yankee doodle went to town
	riding on a pony"
yankee doodle went to town
	riding on a pony
if if if if
	stuck a feather in his hat
				[where is this town?]
if you can understand
	"stuck a feather in his hat"
yankee doodle went to town
	and called it macaroni

if if if if
	if you can understand
"yankee doodle dandy"
	if you can understand
"yankee doodle went to town
	riding on a pony"
				[what is "macaroni"?]
if you can understand
	"stuck a feather in his hat
and called it macaroni"

then you can understand anything that is happening in
the "avant-garde" today.