"This is the story of the battle of New orleans. Which was fit between the Yankees of course and them there English people. in which the British came of rather ignominiously.
Neans they never done no good no how - all right Shut up"

In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Pakenham down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we fought the blooming British in the town of New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh 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.

Well
We looked down the river till we seen the British come.
There must have been a hundred of'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring.
We stood by our cotton bales and didn't said a thing.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh 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.

Well
Pakenham said we could take 'em by surprise
If we didn't fire our muskets til we looked 'em in the eyes
Well we stood quite still til we seen their faces well.
Then we opened up our muskets and really gave 'em..well.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh 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.

Well, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh 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.

Well we fired our muskets til the barrels melted down.
Then grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
We we stuffed his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh 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.

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

