Battle Of New Orleans

Johnny Horton

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  S1:
  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 caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans
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  R1:
  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
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  S2:
  We looked down the river and we seen 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
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  R1:
  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
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  S3:
  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 seen their faces well 

  Then we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave 'em, Well
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  R1:
  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
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  R2:
  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
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  S4:
  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 and powdered his behind 

  And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind
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  R1:
  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
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  R2:
  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
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  D:
  Hut, hut, three, four 

  Sound off, three, four 

  Hut, hut, three, four 

  Sound off, three, four 

  Hut, hut, three, four