Artist: | Johnny Horton (English) |
User: | mark clarke |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
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In eighteen-fourteen we took a little trip
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Along with Colonel Packingham up the Mississipp'
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We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
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And we met the bloomy Rebels near the town of New Orleans.
We fired our guns and the Rebels kept a comin'
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There wasn't night 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.
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We looked up the river and we seen the Rebels come
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While we had at least a hundred of us beatin' on the drum
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We stepped so high and we made our bugles ring
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While they stood beside the cotton bails and didn't say a thing.
We fired our guns and the Rebels kept a comin'
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There wasn't night 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..
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Old Hickory said they could take us by surprise
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If they didn't fire a musket till they looked us in the eyes
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They held their fire till they seen our faces well
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Then then opened up their squirrel guns and really gave us hell.
We fired our guns and the Rebels kept a comin'
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There wasn't night 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.
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
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
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They fired their cannon till the barrel melted down
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So they grabbed the alligator and they fought another round
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They filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind
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And when they lit the powder off the gator lost his mind.
We fired our guns and the Rebels kept a comin'
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There wasn't night as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
E A
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
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
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On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.