In 1814 we took a little trip along 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