The Battle Of New Orleans

(originally by Johnny Horton)

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Well, 1814 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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We met the bloody British in a town near New Orleans
 
[Chorus]
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We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
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There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
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We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
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Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
 
[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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We looked down a river
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And we see'd the British come
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And there must havе been a hundred of 'em
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Beatin' on thе drums
 
[Verse 3]
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They stepped so high
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And they made their bugles ring
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We stood beside our cotton bales
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And didn't say a thing
 
[Chorus]
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We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
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There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
 
We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
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Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
 
[Interlude]
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[Verse 4]
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Old Hickory said
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We could take 'em by surprise
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If we didn't fire our muskets
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'Till we looked 'em in the eye
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We held our fire 'till we see their faces well
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Then we opened up our squirrel guns
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And really gave 'em - well we
 
[Chorus]
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Fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
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There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
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We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
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Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
 
[Interlude]
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[Verse 5]
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They ran through the briars
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And they ran through the brambles
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And they ran through the bushes
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Where the rabbit couldn't go
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They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
 
[Bridge]
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We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down
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So we grabbed an alligator and we fired 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
 
[Verse 6]
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They ran through the briars
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And they ran through the brambles
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And they ran through the bushes
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Where the rabbit couldn't go
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They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
 
[Chorus]
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We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
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There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
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We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
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Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
 
[Outro]
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            To the Gulf of Mexico
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                            To the Gulf of Mexico