The Battle Of New Orleans lyrics - Deep Purple

(originally by Johnny Horton)

Well, in 1814 we took a little trip

Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans

We met the bloody British in a town in New Orleans

We fired our guns and the British kep a-comin'

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

We fired once more and they begin to runnin'

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We looked down a river

And we see'd the British come

And there must have been a hundred of'em

Beatin' on the drums

They stepped so high

And they made their bugles ring

We stood beside our cotton bales

And didn't say a thing

We fired our guns and the British kep a-comin'

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

We fired once more and they begin to runnin'

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Old Hickory 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 see'd their faces well

Then we opened up our squirrel guns

And really gave 'em - well we

Fired our guns and the British kep a-comin'

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

We fired once more and they begin to runnin'

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 the 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 'til 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

Yeah, they ran through the briars

And they ran through the brambles

And they ran through the bushes

Where the rabbit couldn't go

They ran so fast

That the hounds couldn't catch 'em

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We fired our guns and the British kep a-comin'

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

We fired once more and they begin to runnin'

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

To the Gulf of Mexico

To the Gulf of Mexico