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Artist/Band: Jim Ed Brown and the Browns
Lyrics for Song: The Battle of New Orleans
Lyrics for Album: Country's Best on Record [RCA Victor] [1968]



(Jimmie Driftwood)



In eighteen-fourteen we took a little trip

Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississipp'

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans

And we met the bloody British near the town of New Orleans.



We fired our guns and the British kept a comin'

There wasn't night as many as there was a while ago

We fired once more and they began to runnin'

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.



We looked down the river and we see'd the British come

And there must've been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drums

They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring

While we stood beside the cotton bails and didn't say a thing.



We fired our guns and the British kept a comin'

There wasn't night as many as there was a while ago

We fired once more and they began to runnin'

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.



--- Instrumental ---



Old Hickory said we'd take 'em by surprise

If we didn't fire our muskets till we looked 'em in the eyes

We held our fire till we see'd their faces well

Then we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave 'em hell.



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

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.



Well, we fired our cannon till the barrel melted down

Then we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round

We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind

And when we shot the powder off the gator lost his mind.



We fired our guns and the British kept a comin'

There wasn't night as many as there was a while ago

We fired once more and they began to runnin'

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.



We fired our guns and the British kept a comin'

There wasn't night as many as there was a while ago

We fired once more and they began to runnin'

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico...


Album Lyrics: Country's Best on Record [RCA Victor] [1968]


Jim Ed Brown and the Browns
"Country's Best on Record [RCA Victor] [1968]"


1. Tom Dooley
2. Dang Me
3. El Paso
4. Funny Way of Laughin'
5. Detroit City
6. Gentle on My Mind
7. Almost Persuaded
8. King of the Road
9. Big Bad John
10. Flowers on the Wall
11. The Battle of New Orleans