Lyrics The Battle Of New Orleans - Ray Stevens

The Battle Of New Orleans

In 1814, we took a little trip\nAlong with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'.\nWe took a little bacon and we took a little beans\nAnd we caught the bloody British in a town in New Orleans.\nWe fired our guns and the British kept a-coming\nThere wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago.\nWe fired once more, and they began to running,\nOn down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.\nWe looked down the river and we see’d the British come\nAnd there musta' been a hundred of 'em beating on the drum.\nThey stepped so high and they made their bugles ring\nWe stood beside our cotton bales and didn’t say a thing.\nWe fired our guns, and the British kept a-coming\nThere wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago.\nWe fired once more and they began to running,\nOn down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.\nOle Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise\nIf we didn’t fire our muskets 'till we look 'em in the eyes.\nWe held our fire 'til we seen their faces well\nThen we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave 'em… Well.\nWe fired our guns, and the British kept a-coming\nThere wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago.\nWe fired once more and they began to running,\nOn down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.\nWell they ran through the briars, and they ran through the brambles\nAnd they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go.\nThey ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch 'em\nOn down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.\nWe fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down\nSo we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.\nWe filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind,\nAnd when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.\nWe fired our guns and the British kept a-coming\nThere wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago.\nWe fired once more and they began to running,\nOn down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.\nWell they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles\nAnd they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go.\nThey ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch 'em\nOn down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.\nHup, hup, three, four.\nSound, off, three, four.\nHup, hup, three, four.