The Battle Of New Orleans

THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS As recorded by Deep Purple (From the 2021 Album TURNING TO CRIME) [Intro] [Verse 1] Well 1814 we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip’ We took a little bacon and we took a little beans We met the bloody British in a town near New Orleans [Chorus] We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin’ There wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago We fired once more and they begin to runnin’ Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico [Interlude] [Verse 2] We looked down a river And we see’d the British come And there must havе been a hundred of ’em Beatin’ on thе drums [Verse 3] They stepped so high And they made their bugles ring We stood beside our cotton bales And didn’t say a thing [Chorus] We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin’ There wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago We fired once more and they begin to runnin’ Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico [Interlude] [Verse 4] Old Hickory said We could take ’em by surprise If we didn’t fire our muskets ’Till we looked ’em in the eye We held our fire ’till we see their faces well Then we opened up our squirrel guns And really gave ’em - well we [Chorus] Fired our guns and the British kept a-comin’ There wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago We fired once more and they begin to runnin’ Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico [Interlude] [Verse 5] They ran through the briars And they ran through the brambles And they ran through the bushes Where the rabbit couldn’t go They ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ’em On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico [Bridge] We fired our cannon ’til the barrel melted down So we grabbed an alligator and we fired another round We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind [Verse 6] They ran through the briars And they ran through the brambles And they ran through the bushes Where the rabbit couldn’t go They ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ’em On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico [Chorus] N.C. We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin’ N.C. There wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago N.C. We fired once more and they begin to runnin’ Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico [Outro]             To the Gulf of Mexico                             To the Gulf of Mexico