Song: The Battle of New Orleans

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They just dont write em like this anymore....

Enjoy!

(Yes it's Gun Related, Just read the Lyrics, as for L&P content, It is banned in the UK to this day.)

THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS
By: Johnny Horton

In Eighteen-fourteen, we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in a town in New Orleans

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We looked down the river and we seed the British come
And there must have been a hunnered of 'em beatin' on the drum
They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring
We stood beside our cotton bales and didn't say a thing

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Old Hick'ry said we could take 'em by surprise
If we didn't fire our muskets till we looked 'em in the eye
We held our fire till we seed their faces well
Then we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave 'em...

Well, we fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the
brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We fired our cannon till the barrel melted down
So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind!

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the
brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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LOL...

...Crack me up!

I hadn't thought of that in years...I grew up listenin' to that...Hell, I HAD a copy of that on record...

...they ran so fast that the hounds coudn't catchem...LOL...;)
 
love that song, it's in my playlist on my puter and I have it on cassette tape somewhere. Oh yeah it's by Johnny Horton . He was a history teacher and wrote that song as a lesson for his class

Josh
 
Here's My favorite verse.

We fired our cannon till the barrel melted down
So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind!
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Now There is an Idea for ya....:D
 
My Mistake on the singer's name, copied the lyrics from a lyrics site.

And on it being Banned the only 3 versions that aren't banned in the UK are the one you mentioned, the one by Lonnie Donnegan and the Johnny Horton alternate version (Used "Rebels" instead of "British" & sung with a fake British accent).

I Know an Entertainer in the UK who once got into trouble for singing the banned original version at a anniversary party and some bozo took it on themselves to turn him in.:banghead:
 
Ah, yes! I was all of six years old when that song came out, but it still sticks with me! Funny stuff!

Johnny Horton also sang the theme to the John Wayne movie "North to Alaska" and was set to star in it, until he tragically lost his life in an auto accident. :(
 
One of the songs that was recorded while country music was still just that. It's gone to hell in a handbasket the last 10 or 15 or maybe more years. Does anyone else here remember those juke boxes in them smokey old beer joints. I'd bet most of the younger folks here wouldn't even recognize most of the singers from back then!:D
 
"Country? Well, how was it that it was being playerd on all the AM rock stations as I grew up? Huh?"
But you heard it first on the country stations back then.:D
 
Country? Well, how was it that it was being playerd on all the AM rock stations as I grew up? Huh?
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Lot of crossover back then (mid-50's, early 60's) between country and pop. Johnny Cash (Folsom Prison Blues, I Walk The Line), Brenda Lee (Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, I'm Sorry), Marty Robbins (El Paso), Patsy Cline (Walkin' After Midnight). That's assuming, of course, that you were listening to rock/pop radio then.
 
Snoopy vs. The Red Baron by the Royal Guardsmen


After the turn of the century
In the clear blue skies over Germany
Came a roar and a thunder men had never heard
Like the scream and the sound of a big war bird...

Up in the sky, a man in a plane
Baron von Richthofen was his name
Eighty men tried, and eighty men died
Now they're buried together on the countryside....

Chorus: Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more
The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' out the score
Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree
Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany.

In the nick of time, a hero arose...
A funny-looking dog with a big black nose
He flew into the sky to seek revenge
But the Baron shot him down--"Curses, foiled again!"

CHORUS

Now, Snoopy had sworn that he'd get that man
So he asked the Great Pumpkin for a new battle plan...
He challenged the German to a real dogfight
While the Baron was laughing, he got him in his sight.

That Bloody Red Baron was in a fix
He'd tried everything, but he'd run out of tricks
Snoopy fired once, and he fired twice.....
And that Bloody Red Baron went spinning out of sight

CHORUS

FADE ON CHORUS SECOND TIME

1967
 
for those just tuning in,johnnys wife was the second mrs. hank williams sr.
 
Excellent song and his version is the best of all!
Snoopy & the Red Baron is also a classic.
 
Johnny Horton's version was probably the most popular, but the song was written by Jimmy Driftwood. I know it's not 100 per cent reliable, but Wikipedia has some interesting info about Jimmy Driftwood.
 
Song in head

You know how when you get a tune in your head and can't get it out?

This is one I get at least once a year, and it takes me a few weeks to lose it, thanks loads for bringing it back up! :neener:

(I actually get closer to the root of the basic concept, just don't tell the wife, drives her nuts when I keep humming/whistleing it):)


P.S.(Thanks for the full lyrics.)
 
Johnny Horton also sang the theme to the John Wayne movie "North to Alaska" and was set to star in it
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I have been corrected on this by a more knowledgeable relative, who assures me that "North to Alaska" was filmed some time before Johnny died in that November 1960 car crash. He was set to go into acting, however. But, before he died, Johnny was having premonitions about his death!
 
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