Battle of New Orleans - 2

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+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

 6  -7   -8   -8   -8  -7   6  -6 -7 -6   6    5 
In eigh-teen and four-teen we took a lit-tle trip
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a-long with Colo-nel Jack-son down the
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Might-y Mis-si-sip&rsquo;
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We took a lit-tle ba-con and we took a lit-tle beans
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And we caught the blood-y Brit-ish in the
  6   5  -4 -3   3
Town of New Or-leans

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We fir&rsquo;d our guns and Brit-ish kep-pa com-in&rsquo;
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There wuz-n&rsquo;t quite as man-y as there was a while be-fore
 3   -3  -4    -4  -3   -4   5  -4 -3 -3&rsquo;&rsquo; 3  
We fir&rsquo;d once more and they beg-an to run-nin&rsquo;
 3  -3   -4 -4   -4  -4 -4 -4  -4  -4  -3 -3&rsquo;&rsquo;-2&rsquo;&rsquo; 3
On down the Mis-sis-sip-pi to the gulf of Mex--i&mdash;co

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We look&rsquo;d down the riv-er and we seed the Brit-ish come
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There must have been a hund-red of &lsquo;em beat-in&rsquo; on the drum
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They stepped so high and they made their bugl-es ring
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We stood be-hind our cot-ton bales and did-n&rsquo;t say a thing

Chorus

 6   -7   -8  -8   6    -6   -7 -6  6   5
Oh, Hick-&lsquo;ry said we&rsquo;d take &lsquo;em by su-prise
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If we did-n&rsquo;t fire our guns un-til we look&rsquo;d 
 5  -4 -3    3
&lsquo;em in the eyes
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We held our fire till we seed their faces well
  6   6   -6 -6 -6  -7   -6  -5    5   -4   6   5  
Then we open-ed up our squir-rel guns and real-ly 
 -4   -3   3
gave &lsquo;em hell

Chorus

 7    -8  -8    -8    -8   -8
Well they ran through the briars
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And they ran through the bram-bles
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And they ran through the bush-es where 
-8 -8  -7  -6   -5  6
A rab-bit could-nt go
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They ran so fast that the hounds
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Could-n&rsquo;t catch them
  6   -8  -8 -8  -8 -8 -8  -8  -8  -7 -6 -5  6
Down the Mis-si-sip-pi to the gulf of Mex-i-co

 6   -7   -8  -7  -7   6   6   -6  -7  -6   6   5
We fir&rsquo;d our can-non till the bar-rel melt-ed down
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Then we grabbed an al-li-ga-tor and we 
  6    5   -4     3
fought a-nother round
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We filled his head with cannon balls 
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and powder-ed his be-hind
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And when we touched the powder off 
-4   6  5   -4  -3    3
the ga-tor lost his mind

Chorus

7    -8  -8    -8    -8   -8
Well they ran through the briars
 -8  -8   -8    -8    -7  -6   -6
And they ran through the bram-bles
 -6   -6  -7   -8    -8   -8 -8   -8
And they ran through the bush-es where 
-8 -8  -7  -6   -5  6
A rab-bit could-nt go
  6   -7 -8  -8  -8   -8   -8
They ran so fast that the hounds
  -8 -8-7  -6     6  
Could-n&rsquo;t catch them
  6   -8  -8 -8  -8 -8 -8  -8  -8  -7 -6 -5  6
Down the Mis-si-sip-pi to the gulf of Mex-i-co

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