^AIn 1814 we ^Dtook a little trip Al^Eong with Col. Jackson down the ^Amighty Mississippi' We took a little bacon and we ^Dtook a little beans And we ^Ecaught the bloody British in a ^Atown in New Orleans

^AWe fired our guns and the British kept a comin' There wasn't as many as there ^Ewas a while^A ago

Down the Mississippi to the ^EGulf of ^AMexico [Verse 2] ^AWell We looked down the river and we see'd the British come And there must been a hundred of 'em beatin' ^Eon the ^Adrum Stepped so high and they made ^Dtheir bugles ring We stood beside our cotton bales and didn't ^Esay a ^Athing

^AWe fired our guns and the British kept a comin' There were not as many as there ^Ewas a while^A ago

Down the Mississippi to the ^EGulf of ^AMexico [Verse 3] ^AYeah! They ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles And they ran through the bushes where a ^Erabbit couldn't ^Ago They ran so fast that the hounds ^Dcouldn't catch 'em On down the Mississippi to the ^EGulf of Me^Axico ^AWe fired our cannon till the barrel melted down So we grabbed an alligator and we fought ^Eanother ^Around We filled his head with cannonballs and ^Dpowdered his behind And when we touched the powder off, the 'gator ^Elost his ^Amind

^AWe fired our guns and the British kept a comin' There wasn't as many as there ^Ewas a while ^Aago

On down the Mississippi to the ^EGulf of Me^Axico [Verse 4] ^AYeah! They ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles And they ran through the bushes where a ^Erabbit couldn't ^Ago They ran so fast that the hounds ^Dcouldn't catch 'em On down the Mississippi to the ^EGulf of Me^Axico

^AWe fired our guns and the British kept a comin' There wasn't as many as there ^Ewas a while ^Aago

On down the Mississippi to the ^EGulf of Me^Axico [Outro] ^AYeah! They ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles And they ran through the bushes where a ^Erabbit couldn't ^Ago They ran so fast that the hounds ^Dcouldn't catch 'em On down the Mississippi to the ^EGulf of Me^Axico