Battle of New Orleans
1. 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 met the Bloody British near the town of New Orleans Ch. We fight our guns and the British kept a-comin' There wasn't as many as there was a while ago We fired once more and they began to running Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico 2. We look down the river and we saw the British come And there must have been a hundred of them beating on the drums They stopped so high and they made the bugler ring While we stood besides the cotton bales and we didn't say a thing Ch. 3. 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 Ch. 4. Old Hickory said: We can take them by surprise If we didn't fire out muskets till we look them in the eyes We held our fire till we saw the faces well Then we opened up squirrell guns and really gave them hell Ch. 5. We fired our cannon till the barrell melted down So we grabbed an aligator 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 Ch.