Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
Well...you know what they say...inside every American is an English boy trying to get out
Do you remember...
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Well...you know what they say...inside every American is an English boy trying to get out
mikewint
Captain
NOOO Way, Had to kick you Lobster-back Limeys out of here twice, once in '76 and agin Old Hickory had to do it down in New Orleans in '14
Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
I had to laugh at the LBL's Mike...but, I have no idea what you are talking about....
mikewint
Captain
Britishers!! Short memorys:
(Sung to "God save the King")
God bless the Commonwealth,
May it increase in strength, Its foes annoy
That George is now no more king of this fertile shore,
From whence he drew his store, Completes our joy!
God save great Washington,
Virginia's war-like son, And make him brave
Defend him from all the blows of Howe and all his foes
Guard him where'er he goes, Washington save.
Free states attend the song,
Now independent from the British throne
To earth's remotest bound, echoing skies resound,
The sweet melodious sound. Liberty's our own!
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.
[Chorus:]
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 see'd the British come.
And there must have been a hundred of'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring.
We stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.
[Chorus]
Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise
If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eye
We held our fire 'til we see'd their faces well.
Then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave 'em ... well
(Sung to "God save the King")
God bless the Commonwealth,
May it increase in strength, Its foes annoy
That George is now no more king of this fertile shore,
From whence he drew his store, Completes our joy!
God save great Washington,
Virginia's war-like son, And make him brave
Defend him from all the blows of Howe and all his foes
Guard him where'er he goes, Washington save.
Free states attend the song,
Now independent from the British throne
To earth's remotest bound, echoing skies resound,
The sweet melodious sound. Liberty's our own!
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.
[Chorus:]
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 see'd the British come.
And there must have been a hundred of'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring.
We stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.
[Chorus]
Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise
If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eye
We held our fire 'til we see'd their faces well.
Then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave 'em ... well
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Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
Ah yes Mike..of course.
We had to leave you folks to get with your lives at some time...
We had to leave you folks to get with your lives at some time...
meatloaf109
1st Lieutenant
Lobster Backs, Red coats.Limey, From the RN issue of limes to combat scurvey.
Teaching English history to the English.
I ought to get paid for it.
Great Lyrics, Mike!
Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
We had other things to sort out as well in those turbulent years chaps.
Culminating on the Sunday, 18 June 1815...
Paul, what is 'old hickory' ?
Yes you should lol.
Sure you are not of English stock?
This is what I love about you Americans and Aussie's you are really related to us.
Cheers
John
Culminating on the Sunday, 18 June 1815...
Paul, what is 'old hickory' ?
Yes you should lol.
Sure you are not of English stock?
This is what I love about you Americans and Aussie's you are really related to us.
Cheers
John
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Didn't you leave out a part of the song ?
They ran thru the briars and they ran thru the bushes.
They ran thru the brambles where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast the hounds couldn't catch em,
on down the Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico.
Just couldn't help myself. Or was that the chorus?
Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
mikewint
Captain
Well, I'm willing to teach US history too.: Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans(1815) Jackson was nicknamed "Old Hickory" because of his toughness and aggressive personality; he fought in duels, some fatal to his opponents.
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Matt308
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Dearest Lord... 
Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
Hardly surprising considering where his parent hailed from Mike...
His blood line was British !
mikewint
Captain
Well yea, as were so many but he is forgiven his ancestors after he he beat the living Bejesus out of them at New Orleans
Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
Bit like a family feud....British stock Americans fighting British soldiers
buffnut453
Captain
Slight over-exaggeration methinks since a month later those same Brits had taken Fort Bowyer on the Mobile as the last battle of the war.
However, that was all a long time ago and we "cousins" have spent more years fighting on the same side than we did opposing each other.
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Lucky13
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.......and still, them there hillbillies can't speak proper English! 
Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
Play the banjo well though...
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Lucky13
Forum Mascot
Hurry up and paddle, I hear banjos!
Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
Its when the banjos stop we need to start worrying Jan...
mikewint
Captain
You will notice, though, the relative smarts of the country cousins though. We realized long ago that standing perfectly still, in an open field, wearing a red coat, with crossed while belts was not a good idea when a 1000 Kentucky rifles, behind cotton bales were taking aim and shooting along with cannon loaded with grapeshot. After a few volleys, and with most of their senior officers dead or wounded, the British soldiers, having no orders to advance further or retreat, stood out in the open and were shot apart with grapeshot. After about 20 more minutes of bloodletting, General Lambert assumed command and eventually ordered a withdrawal.
Talk about sitting ducks!
Talk about sitting ducks!
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