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Artist/Band: Pete Seeger
Lyrics for Song: Battle Of New Orleans
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Pete Seeger



BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS

(Jimmy Driftwood; tune: Eighth of January, trad.)

Well, in 18 and 14, we took a little trip

Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Missisip

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans

And we met the bloody 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 a running

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Well, I seed Marse Jackson come a-walkin' down the street

And a-talkin' to a pirate by the name of Jean Lafitte;

He gave Jean a drink that he brung from Tennessee,

And the pirate said he'd help us drive the British to the sea.

Well the French told Andrew, "You had better run

For Packenham's a=comin' with a bullet in his gun."

Old Hickory said he didn't give a damn

He's a-gonna whup the britches off of Colonel Packenham.

Well, we looked down the river and we seed 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

Old Hickory said we could take em by surprise

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

We held our fire till we seed their face well

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

Well 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 the hounds couldn't catch em



Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Well we fired our cannons till the barrels melted down

So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round

We filled his head with minie balls and powdered his behind

And when we touched the powder off, the 'gator lost his mind

They lost their pants and their pretty shiny coats

And their tails was all a-showin' like a bunch of billy goats.

They ran down the river with their tongues a-hanging out

And they said they got a lickin', which there wasn't any doubt.

Well we marched back to town in our dirty ragged pants

And we danced all night with the pretty girls from France;

We couldn't understand 'em, but they had the sweetest charms

And we understood 'em better when we got 'em in our arms.

Well, the guide who brung the British from the sea

Come a-limping into camp just as sick as he could be,

He said the dying words of Colonel Packenham

Was, "You better quit your foolin' with your cousin Uncle Sam."

Well, we'll march back home, but we'll never be content

Till we make Old Hick'ry the people's president.

And every time we think about the bacon and the beans

We'll think about the fun we had way down in New Orleans.

Copyright Warden Music Co., Inc.

recorded by Pete Seeger, Jimmy Driftwood, and Johnny Horton

filename[ BATNEWOR

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Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Pete Seeger


Pete Seeger
"Other Songs - Pete Seeger"


1. America The Beautiful
2. Battle Of New Orleans
3. Both Sides Now
4. Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)
5. Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies
6. Danville Girl
7. Down By The Riverside [#]
8. Draft Dodger Rag
9. Goodnight, Irene
10. Harry Simms
11. I'll Never Say Goodbye
12. In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)
13. Joe Hill
14. John Hardy [Johnny Hard] [John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man] [John
15. Last Train To Nuremberg
16. Letter To Eve
17. Lou Marsh
18. Michael Row The Boat Ashore
19. My Dentist Has Tattooed Legs
20. My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms
21. My Name Is Liza Kalvelage
22. My Rainbow Race
23. Never Wed An Old Man
24. Oh Susanna [#]
25. Oh, What A Beautiful City
26. Old Joe Clark [Joe Clarke] [Ole Joe Clark]
27. On Top Of Old Smoky
28. Shenandoah
29. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
30. Stealin'
31. The Bourgeois Blues
32. The First Noel
33. The Foggy Dew
34. The Wreck Of The Old 97
35. Those Three Are On My Mind
36. To My Old Brown Earth
37. Walking Down Death Row
38. We Will Love Or We Will Perish
39. When Johnny Comes Marching Home