Eddy Arnold Battle Of New Orleans Lyrics

Battle Of New Orleans Lyrics

Well in eighteen-fourteen we took a little trip



Along with Colonel
Jackson down the mighty Mississippi'



We took a little bacon and we
took a little beans



And we met up with the British in the town of
New Orleans







We fired our guns and the British kept a
comin'



There wasn't quite 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 seen Morse
Jackson a walkin' down the street



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



He gave Jean a drink that he brought from
Tennessee



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







The French said Andrew you'd better run



For Pakenham's a comin' with a bullet in his gun



Old
Hickory said that we didn't give a damn



He was gonna whip the
britches off of General Pakenham







We fired our
guns...







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 took the powder off the 'gator lost his
mind







They lost their pants and their pretty shiny
coats



And their tails were always showin' like a bunch of billy
goats



They ran down the river with their tongues a hangin' out



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







We fired our guns...







We
marched back to town in our dirty ragged pants



And we danced all
night with them pretty girls from France



We couldn't understand
them but they had the sweetest charms



And we understood them
better when we got them in our arms







We'll march back
home but we'll never be content



Till we make Old Hickory 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







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 that the hounds couldn't catch
'em



On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico