DeTocqueville's Daughter

A Good Day to Be a Yankee Doodle Dandy

By DeTocqueville's Daughter on July 4th, 2010

James Cagney in his favorite– and Oscar-winning– role as musical superstar and patriot George M. Cohan.

You can watch and sing along here, whether or not you were born on the 4th of July.

As Cohan used to say: “Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!”