Key of A
 
{Intro} 
 
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e | ------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |  
B | -5---------------5-5-5--- | -----5---5--5---------------------------------- |  
G | ---6-------4-6-7-------6- | ---6---6--6-------2---2--2--------------------- |  
D | -----7-7-7--------------- | ----------------4---4--4-------2---2---2------- |  
A | ------------------------- | -----------------------------4---4---4--------- |  
E | ------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |  
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 |  {Guitar part}              sl           sl           sl                  |  
e | ------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |  
B | ------------------------- | -----5----------------------------------------- |  
G | ------------------------- | -4/6---6-4--------2---------------------------- |  
D | ------------------------- | -----------7--2/4---4-2--------2--------------- |  
A | ------------------------- | ------------------------5--2/4---4-2-0-2-0----- |  
E | ------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |  
 
 
 
{Verses}                           {Chorus} 
  A       D       E       A         A                       E   A 
e | --------------------------------- | --------------------------------- 
B | -----------3---3----------------- | --------------------------------- 
G | ---2---2-----2-------------2---2- | ---2---2---2---2---2---2-------2- 
D | -----2---0---------2---2-----2--- | -----2-------2-------2-----2----- 
A | -0-------------------2---0------- | -0-------0-------0-----------0--- 
E | -----------------0--------------- | -------------------------0------- 
 
 
{Verse} 
   A5                    D5  
In Eighteen-Fourteen we took a little trip 
 E5                                  A5 
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip' 
   A5                          D5 
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans 
       E5                                A5 
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans 
  
{Chorus 1} 
   A5                      A5 
We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin' 
             A5                            E5            A5  
But, there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago 
   A5                    A5 
We fired once more and they began to runnin' 
   A5                           E5           A5  
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf Of Mexico 
 
{Verse} 
We looked down the river and we seen the British come 
And there must have been a hundred 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 
  
{Repeat Chorus 1} 
 
{Verse}  
Ol Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise 
If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eyes 
We held our fire till we seen their faces well 
Then, we opened our squirrel guns and really gave 'em....well we, 
  
{Repeat Chorus 1} 
 
{Chorus 2}  
Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles 
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go 
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em 
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf Of Mexico 
 
{Verse}  
We fired our cannon 'til 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 set the powder off, the 'gator lost his mind 
  
{Chorus 1} 
 
{Chorus 2}