Song: The Battle of New Orleans

[SniperStraz]

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good stuff

 

[gunsmith]

Jimmy Driftwood wrote that thar song young un's

http://billslater.com/driftwood.htm
he also wrote this one two.

Tennessee Stud
by Jimmy Driftwood

Along about eighteen and twenty-five
I left Tennessee very much alive
I never would have got through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a-ridin on the Tennessee stud

I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud
And I rode away on the Tennessee stud

CHORUS:
The Tennessee stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud

One day I was ridin' in the beautiful land
And ran smack into an Indian band
They jerked their knives with a whoop and a yell
But I rode away like a bat out of hell

Well I circled their camp for a time or two
And showed what a Tennessee hoss could do
And them redskin boys never got my blood
'Cause I was a-ridin' on the Tennessee stud

CHORUS

We drifted on down into no man's land
We crossed the river called the Rio Grande
I raced my hoss with the Spaniards bold
Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold

Me and a gambler we couldn't agree
We got in a fight over Tennessee
We jerked our guns, he fell with a thud
And I got away on the Tennessee stud

CHORUS

Well, I got as lonesome as a man can be
Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee
The Tennessee stud's green eyes turned blue
'Cause he was a-dneamin' of a sweetheart too

We loped on back across Arkansas
I whipped her brother and I whipped her pa
I found that girl with the golden hair
And she was ridin' on a Tennessee mare

CHORUS

Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide
We came to Big Muddy and we forded the flood
On the Tennessee mare and the Tennessee stud

Pretty little baby on the cabin floor
Little hoss colt playin' 'round the door
I love the girl with golden hair
And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare

CHORUS

 

[michiganfan]

What about Jimmy Dean and Big John

 

[Selfdfenz]

Battle of N.O....North to Alaska....
Brings back memories of the stuff my folks listened to when I was a kid.
Hated it then. Love it now.

What an excellent thread!

S-

 

[Car Knocker]

Another crossover group - The Browns (The Old Lamplighter, The three Bells - this is the one about little Jimmy Brown)).

 

[McCall911]

The late 1950's and early 1960's were a interesting time for popular music. There were lots of crossovers--like Johnny Horton, Stonewall Jackson ("Waterloo"), Sonny James, Marty Robbins ("El Paso") etc. from the country side. And at one point, even Dixieland jazz became hot. ("Midnight in Moscow" by Kenny Ball was/is one of my favorites.) Even some easy-listening songs crossed over and became huge hits ("Stranger on the Shore" by Acker Bilk.) Along with Elvis, the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and the infinite assortment of do-wop artists, there was something on popular radio stations to please just about everybody!

But to keep this gun-related--did I mention that I really love to shoot?

 

[Libertyteeth]

Battle of New Orleans, modern version

I liked this, so I saved it. It was posted on keepandbeararms.com

Comment by: Artemis (10/24/2004)

We looked down the train an saw the jackies come, man there musta been a hunnerd of em with ottermatic guns, they goose stepped high and made the bugles ring, we stood beside the transit cars an didnt say a thing...

We fired our guns an the jackies kept a comin, they wasnt quite as many as they was a while a go, we fired once more an they commenced ta' runnin, that armors not as handy as it is on them police shows...

Yeah they ran through trains and they ran through the alleys and they ran through the hood where rambo wouldnt go, they ran so fast that the hounds couldnt catch em, down the bloody streets to retirement dontcha know.

Old salty said we could take'em by suprise if'n we didnt fire our weapons till we looked em in the eyes, we held our fire till we see'd they faces well, then we opened up our squirrell guns n really gave em hell.

We fired our tater gun till the barrel melted down so we grabbed rosie o donnel an fought another round, we stuffed her maw with logging chain and primed that big behind, an when we touched the powder off rosie lost her mind.

(well what was left of it at least)

 

[Zedicus]

ROFLMAO!

Good one!

 

[McCall911]

Battle of New Orleans, modern version

That could easily become one of my favorite songs!

 

[Art Eatman]

I don't think PETA would approve. And the NOW Gang wouldn't like folks picking on Rosie. Ah, well, something to offend everybody.

Fun, but way OT...

Art