The Battle of New Orleans

Updated from the war of 1812 to the present era.
(After lyrics by Jimmy Driftwood, sung by Lonnie Donegan, see
here,
here and
here.)

In August ’05 we took a little trip

Volunteers and Guardsmen down the mighty Mississip.

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans

And we caught the bloody looters in the town of New Orleans.



We fired our guns and the looters 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 coudn’t see no cops and we couldn’t see no mayor

But we saw their badges lying where they threw ’em in the sewer

We passed by Governor Blanco and the victims on the roofs

We saw all the results of the politicians’ goofs



We fired our guns and the looters 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.



Our leaders said we could take ’em by surprise

If we didn’t fire our muskets til we looked ’em in the eyes

We held our fire til we seen their faces well.

Then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave ’em... well.



We fired our guns and the looters 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 flood and they ran through the levees

Slipping on the badges of the cops-a-while-ago.

They ran so fast that the media couldn’t catch ’em

on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.



The hurricane had left the Crescent City in a mess

We need now Mayor Rudi ’cause he leads us through the stress.

He’ll clear away the sludge and rebuild the shattered dreams

And run for President from the town of New Orleans



We fired our guns and the looters 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 flood and they ran o’er the levees

Tripping on the badges of the cops-a-while-ago.

They ran so fast that the media couldn’t catch ’em.

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.