Battle Of New Orleans Lyrics - Singles - Jim Ed Brown

In eighteen-fourteen we took a little trip 

Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississipp' 

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans 

And we met the bloody British near the town of New Orleans 

We fired our guns and the British kept a comin' 

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

We fired once more and they began to runnin' 

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico 

We looked down the river and we seed the British come 

And there must've been a hubdred of 'em beatin' on the drums 

They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring 

While we stood beside the cotton bails and didn't say a thing 

We fired our guns... 

[ harmonica ] 

Old Hickory said we'd 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 really gave 'em hell 

Yeah they ran through the briars 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 

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico 

Well we fired our cannon till the barrel melted down 

Then we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round 

We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind 

And when we took the powder off the gator lost his mind 

We fired our guns... 

We fired our guns...