The Battle Of New Orleans Chords by Johnny Horton

[Start]

[Verse]
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■ ■ ■ In eighteen fourteen we took a little trip
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Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'
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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 acomin'
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There wasn't 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 a river
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And we see'd the British come
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And there must have been a hundred of 'em
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Beatin' on the drums
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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
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We fired our guns and the British kept acomin'
      A                                      
There wasn't 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
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'til we looked 'em in the eye
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We held our fire
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'til we see'd their faces well
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Then we opened up our squirrel guns
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And really gave 'em well
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We fired our guns and the British kept acomin'
                                    A        
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago
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We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico


[Chorus]
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Yeah they ran through the briars
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And they ran through the brambles
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And they ran through the bushes
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Where a rabbit couldn't go
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They ran so fast
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That the hounds couldn't catch 'em
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico ■ ■ 


[Verse]
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We fired our cannon 'til 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 cannon balls and powdered his behind
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And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind
                                  A           
We fired our guns and the British kept acomin'
                                  A          
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago
                            A               
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico ■ ■ 


[Chorus]
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■ Yeah they ran through the briars
             A                   
And they ran through the brambles
A                              
And they ran through the bushes
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Where a rabbit couldn't go
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They ran so fast
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That the hounds couldn't catch 'em
            A                                
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
                A                  
Huttwothreefour Sound off threefour
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Huttwothreefour Sound off threefour ■


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