Johnny Cash The Battle of New Orleans

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 fought 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 to runnin'

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

 

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

And there must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum

They stepped so high and they began to sing

We stood beside our cotton bales and didn't say a thing

 

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin

But there wasn't nigh as many as there was 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

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

 

Well we fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down

And we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round

We filled his head with cannon ball 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

Wasn't nigh 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

 

Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles

And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go

Oh Papapa, papapa, papapa on

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

 

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin

Wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago

We fired once more and they began to runnin' on

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

 

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