Battle Of New Orleans

The Battle Of New Orleans chords

Johnny Horton (Jimmy Driftwood)

 

Capo I

 

G D

G C D G

 

G       C

In 1814 we took a little trip

D7                              G

Along with Col. Jackson down the mighty mississip’d

C

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans

D7                             G

And we caught the bloody British in a town near New Orleans.

 

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

We looked down the river and we see’d the British come

D7                           G

And there musta been a hund’erd of ’em beatin’ on the drum

C

They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring

D7                                G

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

D7                             G

If we didn’t fire our musket till we looked ’em in the eyes

C

We held our fire till we see’d their faces well

D7                               G

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

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.

 

G                         C

We fired our cannon till the barrel melted down

D7                          G

So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round

C

We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind

D7                                  G

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.