| Song Name: | Battle of New Orleans - 2 | By: | Johnny Horton |
| Posted By: | Turkey_Man | Difficulty: | Any |
| Key: | Any | Genre: | Country |
| Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
| Created: | 2017-08-03 12:19:55 | Modified: | 2017-08-03 20:22:08 |
| Song: | 6 -7 -8 -8 -8 -7 6 -6 -7 -6 6 5
In eigh-teen and four-teen we took a lit-tle trip 5 -6 -6 -6 -7 -6 6 5 -4 a-long with Colo-nel Jack-son down the 6 5 -4 -3 3 Might-y Mis-si-sip’ 6 -7 -7 -7 -8 -7 -6 6 6 -6 -7 -6 6 5 We took a lit-tle ba-con and we took a lit-tle beans 6 6 -6 -6 -6 -7 -6 6 5 -4 And we caught the blood-y Brit-ish in the 6 5 -4 -3 3 Town of New Or-leans 3 -3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -3 We fir’d our guns and Brit-ish kep-pa com-in’ 3 -3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -3 -3’’ -2’’ 3 There wuz-n’t quite as man-y as there was a while be-fore 3 -3 -4 -4 -3 -4 5 -4 -3 -3’’ 3 We fir’d once more and they beg-an to run-nin’ 3 -3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -3 -3’’-2’’ 3 On down the Mis-sis-sip-pi to the gulf of Mex--i—co 6 -7 -8 -8 -7 -7 6 6 -6 -7 -6 6 5 We look’d down the riv-er and we seed the Brit-ish come 5 -6 -6 -6 -7 -6 6 5 -4 6 5 -4 -3 3 There must have been a hund-red of ‘em beat-in’ on the drum 6 -7 -7 -8-7 6 6 -6 -7 -6 6 5 They stepped so high and they made their bugl-es ring 6 -6 -6 -6 -7 -6 6 5 -4 6 5 -4 -3 3 We stood be-hind our cot-ton bales and did-n’t say a thing Chorus 6 -7 -8 -8 6 -6 -7 -6 6 5 Oh, Hick-‘ry said we’d take ‘em by su-prise 5 5 -6 -6 -6 -7 6 -5 5 -4 6 If we did-n’t fire our guns un-til we look’d 5 -4 -3 3 ‘em in the eyes 6 -7 -7 -7 6 6 -6 -7 -6 5 We held our fire till we seed their faces well 6 6 -6 -6 -6 -7 -6 -5 5 -4 6 5 Then we open-ed up our squir-rel guns and real-ly -4 -3 3 gave ‘em hell Chorus 7 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 Well they ran through the briars -8 -8 -8 -8 -7 -6 -6 And they ran through the bram-bles -6 -6 -7 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 And they ran through the bush-es where -8 -8 -7 -6 -5 6 A rab-bit could-nt go 6 -7 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 They ran so fast that the hounds -8 -8 -6 6 Could-n’t catch them 6 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -7 -6 -5 6 Down the Mis-si-sip-pi to the gulf of Mex-i-co 6 -7 -8 -7 -7 6 6 -6 -7 -6 6 5 We fir’d our can-non till the bar-rel melt-ed down 5 5 -6 -6 -6 -7 -6 -5 5 -4 Then we grabbed an al-li-ga-tor and we 6 5 -4 3 fought a-nother round 6 -7 -7 -7 -8 -8 -7 6 We filled his head with cannon balls 6 -6 -7 -6 6 5 and powder-ed his be-hind 6 -6 -6 -6 -7 -6 -5 5 And when we touched the powder off -4 6 5 -4 -3 3 the ga-tor lost his mind Chorus 7 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 Well they ran through the briars -8 -8 -8 -8 -7 -6 -6 And they ran through the bram-bles -6 -6 -7 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 And they ran through the bush-es where -8 -8 -7 -6 -5 6 A rab-bit could-nt go 6 -7 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 They ran so fast that the hounds -8 -8-7 -6 6 Could-n’t catch them 6 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -7 -6 -5 6 Down the Mis-si-sip-pi to the gulf of Mex-i-co Eb |
