Battle of New Orleans – 2 Harmonica Tabs

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In eigh-teen and four-teen we took a lit-tle trip
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a-long with Colo-nel Jack-son down the
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Might-y Mis-si-sip’
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We took a lit-tle ba-con and we took a lit-tle beans
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And we caught the blood-y Brit-ish in the
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Town of New Or-leans

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We fir’d our guns and Brit-ish kep-pa com-in’
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There wuz-n’t quite as man-y as there was a while be-fore
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We fir’d once more and they beg-an to run-nin’
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On down the Mis-sis-sip-pi to the gulf of Mex–i—co

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We look’d down the riv-er and we seed the Brit-ish come
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There must have been a hund-red of ‘em beat-in’ on the
drum
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They stepped so high and they made their bugl-es ring
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We stood be-hind our cot-ton bales and did-n’t say a thing

Chorus

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Oh, Hick-‘ry said we’d take ‘em by su-prise
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If we did-n’t fire our guns un-til we look’d
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‘em in the eyes
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We held our fire till we seed their faces well
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Then we open-ed up our squir-rel guns and real-ly
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gave ‘em hell

Chorus

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Well they ran through the briars
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And they ran through the bram-bles
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And they ran through the bush-es where
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A rab-bit could-nt go
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They ran so fast that the hounds
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Could-n’t catch them
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Down the Mis-si-sip-pi to the gulf of Mex-i-co

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We fir’d our can-non till the bar-rel melt-ed down
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Then we grabbed an al-li-ga-tor and we
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fought a-nother round
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We filled his head with cannon balls
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and powder-ed his be-hind
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And when we touched the powder off
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the ga-tor lost his mind

Chorus

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Well they ran through the briars
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And they ran through the bram-bles
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And they ran through the bush-es where
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A rab-bit could-nt go
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They ran so fast that the hounds
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Could-n’t catch them
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Down the Mis-si-sip-pi to the gulf of Mex-i-co

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