Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/02

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Subject: [Leica] Cricket images MCG
From: SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com)
Date: Tue Jan 2 15:32:52 2007

 
 
In a message dated 1/2/2007 4:54:44 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
hoppyman@bigpond.net.au writes:

Ric,  actually the game is just incidental. The purpose is the defeat of  the
English ;-)

There is a MUCH more entertaining way.  We did it in New  Orleans.
 
     
Battle Of New Orleans 
   
In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel  Jackson down the mighty Mississipp'
We took a little bacon and we took  a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New  Orleans

We fired our guns and the British kept a  coming
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while  ago
We fired once more and they began to  running
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of  Mexico

We looked down the river and we seen the British come
And  there must have been a hundred of them beating on the drums
They  stepped so high and they made their bugles ring
We stood behind our  cotton bales and didn't say a thing

Old Hickory said we could take  'em by suprise
If we didn't fire a musket 'til we looked 'em in the  eyes
We held our fire 'til we seen their faces well
We opened up our  squirrel guns and really gave 'em

Well they ran through the briars  and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where  the rabbits couldn't go
They ran so fast the hounds couldn't catch  'em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We fired our  cannon 'til the barrel melted down
Then we grabbed an alligator and we  fought another round
We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered  his behind
And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his  mind

 

Regards,  
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Oldest continuous  settlement in La Louisiane
?galit?, libert?,  crawfish

Replies: Reply from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] Re: Cricket images MCG now Battle of New Orleans)
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