And in 1814 we took a little trip

Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississippi

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans

And we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans

We fired our guns and the British kept a coming

There wasn't 'bout as many as there was awhile ago

We fired once more and they began to running

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We looked down the river and we seen the British come

There must have been a hundred of them beating on a 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 coming

There wasn't 'bout as many as there was awhile ago

We fired once more and they began to running

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Old hickory said we could take them by surprise

If we didn't fire our muskets till we looked them in the eyes

We held our fire till we seen their faces well

Then we opened up our squirrel guns and gave them a little well we

Fired our guns and the British kept a coming

There wasn't 'bout as many as there was awhile ago

We fired once more and they began to running

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

And they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles

And they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go

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

All down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We fired our cannons till the barrels melted down

So we grabbed an alligator and we fired another round

We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind

And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind

We fired our guns and the British kept a coming

There wasn't 'bout as many as there was awhile ago

We fired once more and they began to running

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

They ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles

And they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go

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

All down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico