Hoyt Axton - Battle of New Orleans lyrics

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In 1814 we took a little trip

Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississippi

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans

And we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans

We fired our guns and the British kept a comin'

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

Fired once more and they began a runnin'

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico*

Oh, we looked down the river and we seen the British come

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

Stepped so high and they make their bugles ring

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

Well they ran through the briars

And they ran through the brambles

And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go

Ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico **

Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise

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

We kept real still 'til we seed their faces swell

We opened up our squirrel guns and really gave 'em...

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We fired our guns 'til the barrels melted down

Then we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round

We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind

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