BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS (From January the 8th)
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In eighteen fourteen we took a little trip
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Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip’
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We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
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And we met the bloody British near the town of New Orleans
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We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin’
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But they wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago
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We fired once more and they began a-runnin’
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On Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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Well we looked down the river and we seed the British come
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There musta been a hundred of ‘em beating on the drums
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They stepped so’high and they made their bugles ring
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While we stood beside our cotton bales and didn’t say a thing
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Old Hickory said we could take ‘em by surprise
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If we didn’t fire a musket ‘til we looked ‘em in the eyes
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We held our fire ‘til we seed their faces well,
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Then we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave ‘em hell
CHORUS.
Interlude:
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Well they ran through the briars and they ran through t he brambles,
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And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit wouldn’t go
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Ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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Well, we fired our cannon ‘til the barrel melted down
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Then we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
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We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind
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And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind.
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