The Battle Of New Orleans chords by Johnny Horto

The Battle Of New Orleans chords
Johnny Horton (Jimmy Driftwood)

Capo I

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In 1814 we took a little trip
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Along with Col. Jackson down the mighty mississip'd
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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 a town in New Orleans.

   G
We fired our guns and the British kept a comin'
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There wasn't as many as there was a while ago

We fired once more and they began to runnin'
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

   G                            C
We looked down the river and we see'd the British come
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And there musta been a hund'erd 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 beside our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.

   G
We fired our guns and the British kept a comin'
                              D7           G
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago

We fired once more and they began to runnin'
                               D7          G
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

    G                     C
Old Hick'ry said we could take 'em by su'prise
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If we didn't fire our musket till we looked 'em in the eyes
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We held our fire till we see'd their faces well
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Then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave 'em ... Well -

   G
We fired our guns and the British kept a comin'


                              D7           G
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago

We fired once more and they began to runnin'
                               D7          G
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

           G
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

They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
                               D7          G
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 and powdered his behind
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And when we touched the powder off, the 'gator lost his mind.

   G
We fired our guns and the British kept a comin'
                              D7           G
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago

We fired once more and they began to runnin'
                               D7          G
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

           G
Yeah! they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
                                        D7              G
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go

They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
                               D7          G
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.


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