The Battle Of New Orleans lyrics by Johnny Horton
In 1814 we took a little tripalong with Colonel Jackson
down the mighty Mississip
We took a little bacon and
we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British
in the town of New Orleans
We fired our guns and the
British kept a coming
There wasn't nigh as many
as there was a while ago
We fired once more and
they began to running
on down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico
We looked down the river
and we see'd the British come
And there must have been a
hundred of them
beating on the drum
They stepped so high and
they made their bugles ring
We stood beside our cotton
bales and didn't say a thing
We fired our guns and the
British kept a coming
There wasn't nigh as many
as there was a while ago
We fired once more and
they began to running
on down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico
Old Hickory said we could
take them by surprise
If we didn't fire our musket till
we looked them in the eye
We held our fire till
we see'd their faces well
Then we opened up with squirrel
guns and really gave them
Well, we
fired our guns and the
British kept a coming
There wasn't nigh as many
as there was a while ago
We fired once more and
they began to running
on down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico
Yeah, they ran through the briars
and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes
where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast that
the hounds couldn't catch them
on down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico
We fired our cannon
til the barrel melted down
So we grabbed an alligator
and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannonballs
and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off,
the gator lost his mind
We fired our guns and the
British kept a coming
There wasn't nigh as many
as there was a while ago
We fired once more and
they began to running
on down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico
Yeah, they ran through the briars
and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes
where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast that
the hounds couldn't catch them
on down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico
