The Battle of New Orleans (Lonnie Donegan / Johnny Horton cover) Lyrics

Well, 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
We met the bloody British in the town of New Orleans

Well, 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 begin a-runnin'
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We looked down a river and we've see the British come
There must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' 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-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin a-runnin'
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 held our fire 'til we see'd their faces well
Then we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave 'em well

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 begin a-runnin'
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

And they ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where the 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 '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

They ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where the rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

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 begin a-runnin'
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico