lonnie donegan、His Skiffle Group - The Battle of New Orleans

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:06.17]Well  this here's the story about the Battle of New Orleans [00:08.16]Which was fit between the Yankees of course and them there English people [00:20.33]In which the British came off rather ignominiously [00:29.63]Well  in 1814  we took a little trip [00:34.62]Along the Colonel Packenham down the mighty Mississipp [00:37.06]We took a little bacon and we took a little beans [00:39.93]And we fought the bloomin' British in the town of New Orleans [00:42.92]Well  we fired our guns and the British kept a comin' [00:45.42]There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago [00:48.41]We fired once more and they began a running [00:51.35]On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico [00:58.65]Well  we looked down the river till we see the British come [01:02.20]There must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum [01:05.64]They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring [01:09.01]Well  we stood beside our cotton bales and never said a thing [01:12.00]Well  we looked down the river till we see the British come [01:15.12]And there must have been a hundred of them beating on the drum [01:20.92]They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring [01:23.73]While we stood behind our cotton bales and didn't say a thing [01:26.79]Well  Packenham said we could take 'em by surprise [01:32.15]If we didn't fire a musket till we looked `em in the eyes [01:37.77]Well  we stood quite still till we see their face well [01:40.77]Then we opened up our muskets and we really gave 'em well [01:44.26]Well  we fired our guns and the British kept a comin' [01:47.01]There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago [01:50.00]We fired once more and they began a running [01:52.75]On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico [02:00.49]Well  they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles [02:03.79]And they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go [02:10.28]They ran so fast that the houndscouldn't catch 'em [02:13.72]All down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico [02:16.15]Well  we fired our muskets so the barrels melted down [02:20.39]Then grabbed an alligator and we fought another round [02:22.95]Well  we stuffed his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind [02:29.57]So when we touched the powder off  the 'gator lost his mind [02:38.61]Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico    Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico     Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico      Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico