Battle of New Orleans ::: Lonnie Donegan and Lyrics Chords

_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
Well, you hear the story about the Battle of New Orleans, _ which was fit between the
[C] _ [G] Yankees of course and them there English people, _ _ in which the British came off rather ignominiously.
_ Means they never done no good, no how, all right?
Shut up. _ _
_ Well, [C] in 1814 we took a little trip [G] along with Colonel Packham down to muddy Mississippi.
We took a little bacon [F] and we took a little beans [D] and we fought the blooming British in
a town in New Orleans.
[C] Well we fired our guns and the British kept a coming.
There wasn't
as many as there was a while ago, though we fired once more and they began a running all
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. _ _ _ _ _
Well, we looked down the [F] river till we see
the British [G] come.
There must have been a [C] hundred of them beating on the drum.
They stepped
so [F] high and then made the bugles [D] ring.
Well we stood beside a cotton field and [C] never said
a thing.
Well we fired our guns and the British kept a coming.
There wasn't as many as there
was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began a running all down the Mississippi to
the Gulf of Mexico. _ _ _ _ _
_ Well, Packham said [F] we could take them by [G] surprise if we didn't fire
a musket so we looked them in the [C] eye.
_ Well we stood quiet [D] still till we see their faces
well and we opened up a musket and we really gave them well.
[C] We fired our guns and the
British kept a coming.
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago.
Well we fired once
more and they began a running all down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. _
_ _ _ _ _ Well, they
ran through the brine and they ran through the [G] brambles and they ran through the bushes
[C] where the rabbits couldn't go.
They ran so fast the hounds couldn't catch [G] them all down
the Mississippi [C] to the Gulf of Mexico.
Well, we fired our guns and the British kept a coming.
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago.
Well we fired once more [C] and they began a running
all down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. _
_ _ _ _ _ Well, we fired our muskets and [F] the barrels
and all _ [G] the gator and [C] we fought another round. _
_ Well, we stuffed his head with cannonballs
and [G] pounded his behind.
Well, [C#] when we touched the powder off the [C] gator lost his mind.
Well,
we fired our guns and the British kept a coming.
There wasn't as many as there was a while
ago.
Well, we fired once more and they began a running all down the Mississippi to the
Gulf of Mexico.
Down [G] the Mississippi to the Gulf of [Cm] Mexico.
Down the [C] Mississippi to the
Gulf of Mexico.
Well, they down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
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