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The Battle of New Orleans
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Dinah Shore
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In 1814 we took a little trip
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Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississippi
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We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
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And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans
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We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin'
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There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
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We fired once more and they began to runnin'
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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We looked down the river and we seed the British come
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And there must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum
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They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring
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We stood behind our cotton bales and didn't say a thing
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We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin'
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There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
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We fired once more and they began to runnin'
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise
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If we didn't fire our muskets till we looked 'em in the eyes
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We held our fire till we seed their faces well
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Then we opened up our squirrel guns and gave 'em, well we
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Fired our guns and the British kept a'comin'
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There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
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We fired once more and they began to runnin'
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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Yeah they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
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And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
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They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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We fired our cannon till the barrel melted down
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So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
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We filled his head with cannonballs '' powdered his behind
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And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind
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We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin'
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There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
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We fired once more and they began to runnin'
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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Yeah they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
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And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
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They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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Hut, hut, three, four
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Sound off, three, four
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Hut, hut, three, four
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Sound off, three, four
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Hut, hut, three, four
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