Johnny Horton - Battle Of New Orleans guitar chord

Battle Of New Orleans

By Johnny Horton

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

G C

In Eighteen-Fourteen we took a little trip

D G

Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'

C

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans

D G

And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans

Chorus 1

G

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin’

D G

But, there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago

G

We fired once more and they began to runnin'

D G

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf Of Mexico

We looked down the river and we seen the British come

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

They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring

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

Repeat Chorus 1

Ol 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 till we seen their faces well

Then, we opened our squirrel guns and really gave 'em....well we,

Chorus 2

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

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 cannonballs and powdered his behind

And when we set the powder off, the 'gator lost his mind

Repeat Chorus 1

Repeat Chorus 2