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The Battle of New Orleans
Deep Purple
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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 of New Orleans
Well, 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 begin a-runnin'
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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We looked down a river and we've see the British come
There must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on a drum
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 kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin a-runnin'
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise
If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eyes
We held our fire 'til 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 kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin a-runnin'
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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And 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
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 kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin runnin'
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico
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To the Gulf of Mexico
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