BATTLE OF
By Jimmy Driftwood
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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 near the town of New Orleans,
We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin',
There wuzn't nigh as many as there wuz 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 seed the British come,
There must have been a hunnered of 'em beatin' on the drum,
They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring,
While we stood beside our cotton bales and didn't say a thing
We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin',
There wuzn't nigh as many as there wuz a while ago,
We fired once more and they began to runnin',
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico,
Old Hick'ry said we could take 'em by surprise,
If we didn't fire our muskets till we looked 'em in the eyes,
We held our fire till we seed their faces well,
Then we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave 'em... Well,
We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin',
There wuzn't nigh as many as there wuz 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 'em,
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico,
We fired our cannon till the barrel melted down,
So we grabbed 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!
We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin',
There wuzn't nigh as many as there wuz 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 'em,
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico,
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