Battle of New Orleans - Lonnie Donegan

(spoken: ) Well, this here's the story of the Battle of New Orleans, 
which was fit between Yankees a coast and the English people, 
in which the British came off rather ignominiously.
 
   C (x32010@1)               F1. (133211@1)Well, in 1814, we took a little trip,
     G (320003@1)                                  C (x32010@1)   along with Colonel Packenham down the mighty Mississipp.
                                  F (133211@1)   We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
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    and we fought the bloomin' British in the town of New Orleans
 
         CWell, (x32010@1)we fired our guns and the British kept a comin',
                                   G (320003@1)         Cthere (x32010@1)wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
    
We fired once more and they began a running,
                               G (320003@1)     Con (x32010@1)down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
 
            C (x32010@1)                           F2. (133211@1)Well, we looked down the river till we see the British come,
          G (320003@1)                             C (x32010@1)   there must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum.
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    They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring,
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    well, we stood beside our cotton bales and never said a thing.
 
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               C (x32010@1)               F3. (133211@1)Well, Packenham said we could take 'em by surprise,
          G (320003@1)                          C (x32010@1)   if we didn't fire a musket till we looked  `em in the eyes.
                                      F (133211@1)   Well, we stood quite still till we see their face well,
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    then we opened up our muskets and we really gave 'em well.
 
         CWell, (x32010@1)we fired our guns and the British kept a comin',
                                    G (320003@1)        Cthere (x32010@1)wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
    
We fired once more and they began a running,
                                G (320003@1)        Con (x32010@1)down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
 
              C (x32010@1)                             F4. (133211@1)Well, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles,
             G (320003@1)                              C (x32010@1)   and they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go.
                              F (133211@1)   They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em,
        G (320003@1)                         C (x32010@1)   all down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
 
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            C (x32010@1)                      F5. (133211@1)Well, we fired our muskets so the barrels melted down,
           G (320003@1)                       C (x32010@1)   then grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
                                                    F (133211@1)   Well, we stuffed his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind,
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    so when we touched the powder off, the 'gator lost his mind.
 
             C (x32010@1)                         G (320003@1)         C+ (x32010@1)CHORUS     Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. (4x)