The Battle Of New Orleans

In 1814, we took a little trip

'Long with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississipp'

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans

Caught the bloody British in the town o' New Orleans

Fired our guns and the British kept on comin'

Wasn't now as many as there was awhile ago

Fired once more and they began a runnin'

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Now we looked down the river and seen the British come

Must've been a hundred of them beatin' on a drum

Stepping so high they made the bugles ring

We stood beside our cotton bales and didn't say a thing

Fired our guns and the British kept on comin'

Wasn't now as many as there was awhile ago

Fired once more and they began a runnin'

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Well they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles

Ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go

Ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Woo

Well Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise if we didn't fire a musket 'til we looked 'em in the eyes

So we held our fire 'til we seen their faces well

Then opened up the squirrel guns and give 'em hell

Fired our guns and the British kept on comin'

Wasn't now as many as there was awhile ago

Fired once more and they began a runnin'

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We fired our canon 'til the barrel melted down

Then we grabbed an alligator and we founght another round

Filled his head with canon balls, powered his behind

But when we touched the powder off, the gator blew his mind

Well they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles

Ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go

Ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico