Battle of New Orleans

Battle of New Orleans - Lonnie Donegan

Well this here's the story about the Battle of New Orleans

Which was fit between the Yankees of course and them there English people

In which the British came off rather ignominiously

Well in 1814 we took a little trip

Along the Colonel Packenham down the mighty Mississipp

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans

And we fought the bloomin' British in the town of New Orleans

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 a running

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Well we looked down the river till we see 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

Well we stood beside our cotton bales and never said a thing

Well we looked down the river till we see the British come

And there must have been a hundred of them beating on the drum

They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring

While we stood behind our cotton bales and didn't say a thing

Well Packenham said we could take 'em by surprise

If we didn't fire a musket till we looked `em in the eyes

Well we stood quite still till we see their face well

Then we opened up our muskets and we really gave 'em well

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 a running

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 houndscouldn't catch 'em

All down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Well we fired our muskets so the barrels melted down

Then grabbed an alligator and we fought another round

Well we stuffed his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind

So when we touched the powder off the 'gator lost his mind

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