1.
In Geighteen-fourteen we toCok a little trip
along Dwith Colonel Jackson down the Gmighty Mississippi
we took a little bacon and we toCok a little beans
and we Dmet the bloody British near the Gtown of New Orleans.
CHORUS 1:
We Gfired our guns and the British kept a-coming
there wasn't as many as there Dwas a while aGgo
we fired once more and they began running
down the Mississippi to the DGulf of MexiGco.
2.
We looked down the river and saw the British come
and there must have been a hundred of them beating on the drums
they stepped so high and they made the bugles ring
while we stood besides the cotton bales and we didn't say a thing.
CHORUS 1:...
3.
Old Hickory said:"We can take them by surprise!"
we didn't fire our muskets till we looked them in the eyes
we held our fire till we saw the faces well
then we opened up squirrel guns and really gave them hell.
CHORUS 1:...
CHORUS 2:
They ran to the briars and they ran to the brambles
and they ran to the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
they ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch them
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
4.
We fired our cannon till the barrel melted down
so we grabed 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.
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