The Battle of New Orleans - The Brothers Four

In eighteen-fourteen we took a little trip

Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans

And we caught the bloody British

In the town of New Orleans

We fired our guns and the British

Kept on comin'

There wasn't neigh 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

We looked down the river and we seen the British come

And there must have been a hundred of

Them 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

We fired our guns and

The British kept on comin'

There wasn't neigh 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

Fired our guns fired our guns

Oh Hickory said we could take them by surprise

If we didn't fire our muskets

Stil we looked them in the eyes

We held our fire stil we seen their faces well

Then we opened up our squirrel guns

And really gave them well

We fired our guns and

The British kept on comin'

There wasn't neigh

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

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 them

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We fired our cannon until the barrel melted down

So we grabbed an alligator and

We fought another round

We filled his head with cannonballs

And powered his behind

And when we touched the powder off the

Gator lost his mind

We fired our guns and the British kept on comin'

There wasn't neigh 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

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 them

A down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mex