Chip Willis "Jimmy Driftwood" was assumed by James Morris, a school teacher who made up songs as a way of making historical facts more easily remembered. Johnny Horton cleaned up the lyrics for radio. There is also a version from the British point of view.)
"In 1814 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 the town of New Orleans
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