Battle Of New Orleans chords by Jim Ed Brown

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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In 1814, we took a little trip
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along with Colonel Jackson
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down the mighty Mississippi.
We took a little bacon
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and we took a little beans
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and we met the bloody British
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near the town of New Orleans.
We fired our guns
and the British kept on coming.
There wasn't as many
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as there was a while ago.
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We fired once more and
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they began to run.
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Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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We looked down the river
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and we see the British coming
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There must have been a hundred
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of them beating on the drums
They stepped so high
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and they made their bugles ring
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While we stood beside our cotton bales
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and didn't say a thing
We fired our guns
and the British kept a coming
There wasn't as many as
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there was a while ago
We fired once more and
they began to run
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Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of
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Mexico
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Old Hickory said we'd
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take them by surprise
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If we didn't fire a musket
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till we looked them in the eyes
We held our fire
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till we see'd their faces well
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Then we opened up the squirrel guns
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and really
Well, they ran through the briars
and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes
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where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast
that the hounds couldn't catch them
Down from Mississippi to
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the Gulf of Mexico
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We fired our cannon
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till the barrel melted down
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So we grabbed an alligator
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and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannonballs
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and powdered his behind
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When we touched the powder
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off the gator lost his mind
We fired our guns
and the British kept a coming
There wasn't as many as
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D 
there was a while ago
We fired once more and
they began to run it
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Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
D 
We fired our guns
and the British kept a coming
There wasn't as many as
A 
D 
there was a while ago
We fired once more and
they began to run it
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Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico