Battle of New Orleans

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In A1814 we took a little trip

Along with Colonel Jackson down the Emighty Mississippi

We Atook a little bacon and we took a little beans

And we Dcaught the bloody British in the Etown of New OrAleans

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'

There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago

We fired once more and they began to runnin'

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We looked down the river and we seed the British come

And there must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum

They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring

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

Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise

If we didn't fire our muskets 'till we looked 'em in the eyes

We held our fire 'till we seed their faces well

Then we opened up our squirrel guns and gave 'em wellllll...

Yeah they ran through the briers 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 'em

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We fired our cannon 'till the barrel melted down

So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round

We filled his head with cannonballs 'n' powdered his behind

And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind