In Eighteen-Fourteen we took a little trip,

A-long with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,

And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin,

But, there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.

We fired once more and they began to runnin'

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf Of Mexico.

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

here 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.

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin,

But, there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.

We fired once more and they began to runnin'

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf Of Mexico.

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 see'd their faces well,

Then, we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave 'em....well,

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin,

But, there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.

We fired once more and they began to runnin'

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf Of Mexico.

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.

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.

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin,

But, there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.

We fired once more and they began to runnin'

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf Of Mexico.

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.