Well, in eighteen and fourteen
we took a little trip
along with Colonel Jackson
down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon
and we took a little beans,
And we caught the bloody British
near the town of New Orleans.
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 began to runnin'
down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico.
Well, we looked down the river
and we see'd the British come,
and there must have been
a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high
and they made their bugles ring
while we stood by 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 began to runnin'
down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico.
Old Hickory said
we could take 'em by surprise
if we didn't fire a musket
til we looked 'em in the eyes.
We held our fire
til we see'd their faces well,
then we opened up with squirrel guns
and really gave a yell.
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 began to runnin'
down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico.
Well, 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 they tetched the powder off
the gator lost his mind.
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 began to runnin'
down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico.
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
the hounds couldn't catch 'em
down the Mississippi
to the Gulf of Mexico.