The Battle of New Orleans
Jimmy Driftwood
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1. In Eighteen-Fourteen we took a little trip,
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   Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississipp’
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   We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
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   And we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.

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   Will we fired our guns and the British kept a comin’
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   There wasn’t quite as many as there was a while ago. 
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   We fired once more and they began to runnin’
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   On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. 

2. Old Hickory said we could tae them by surprise
   If we didn’t fire our muskets ‘till we looked them in the eyes.
   So we held our fire ‘till we seen their faces well
   Then we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave them, well now.

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   Well they ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles.
   They ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn’t’ go.
   They ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em
   On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

3. We looked down the river and we seen the British come.
   There must ‘o been a hundred of ‘em beatin’ on a drum.
   Well they stepped so high and they made their bugles ring
   We stood behind our cotton bails and didn’t say a thing.

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4. Well we fired our cannon ‘till the barrel melted down
   And we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
   We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind.
   And when we set the powder off the gaiter lost his mind.

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