Tablature battle of new orleans - Johnny Horton

          



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  Date: 7/29/97; 1:31:18 AM

  From: ah827@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Gene L. Graham)

  Subject: BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS

  

  

  BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS

  Recorded by Johnny Horton

  Written by Jimmy Driftwood

  

  CAPO: 2nd Fret/KEY: A/PLAY: G

  [G] In 1814 we [C] took a little trip

  A-[D7] long with Col. Jackson down the [G] mighty mississip'

  We took a little bacon and we [C] took a little beans

  And we [D7] Caught the bloody British in a [G] town in New Orleans.

  

  CHORUS

  

  We fired our guns and the British kept a comin'

  There wasn't as many as there [D7] was a while a-[G] go

  We fired once more and they began to runnin'

  On down the Mississippi to the [D7] Gulf of Mexi-[G] co.

  

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

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

  They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring

  We stood beside our cotton bales and didn't say a thing. 

  

  CHORUS

  

  Old Hick'ry said we could take 'em by su'prise 

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

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

  Then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave 'em ... Well -

  

  REPEAT 1ST CHORUS

  

  2ND CHORUS

  Yeah! they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles

  And they ran through the bushes where a [D7] rabbit couldn't [G] go

  They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em

  On down the Mississippi to the [D7] Gulf of Mexi-[G] co. 

  

  We fired our cannon till the barrel melted down 

  So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round

  We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind 

  And when we touched the powder off, the 'gator lost his mind. 

  

  REPEAT 1ST CHORUS

  

  REPEAT 2ND CHORUSA 


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 Battle of new orleans, de Johnny horton 

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