It happened again!

7/4/2024 | Jack

[Kartographer]

Independence Day and once again I find myself in an English Pub ordering a cold beer and a hot dog yelling for someone to change the TV over from 'foot ball' to Base Ball game and then after a few beers I grab the karaoke mike and start singing Jimmy Horton’s ‘The Battle of New Orleans‘ and then the fight starts next thing I know two big ex SAS guys throw me out a window?? What's the chances?

[Kartographer]

I’m still free you can’t take the syy from me!

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Back in 2007 I was in Bashra on a UK base for the 4th, the Brits did a BBQ for us. Good times.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

We fired our guns and the British kept a'coming

There wasn't quite as many as there were a while ago

We fired once more and they began a'running

Down the Mississippi to the Golf of Mexico.

Can't imagine why they would object.

Next time try singing "Sink the Bismarck". :)

[hole_n_one]

The dead give away was ordering a cold beer and a hot dog rather than a pint and a sausage in a roll……

….but good for you for reminding them about the red, white, and blue.

[nwrep]

Where did it happen this time?

[Ancesthntr]

Happy Insurrection Day, fellow ungrateful colonial!

[Don W]

Considering that the “Battle of New Orleans” happened several months AFTER the treaty of Ghent was signed, it makes little sense that someone would celebrate nearly destroying a hard-fought peace treaty.

[Fiji Hill]

You'll get better service if order a pint of stout, porter or lager and expect it to be warm, along with a banger with mash. And when you grab the karaoke mic, sing Stonewall Jackson's Waterloo.

[ifinnegan]

Johnny Horton.

[Terabitten]

Why do you always seem to find yourself in an Alliance friendly bar on Unification Day?

[ConjunctionJunction]

Wha- ? I didn’t start it! Just wanted a quiet drink.

[clintonh8r]

Indeed.

[Rockingham]

Until implemented, the peace treaty was notional, with the British expedition to take New Orleans launched during peace negotiations and with orders to disregard any rumors of a peace. If the British had won the Battle of New Orleans, they could have tried to keep the city so as to constrain US expansion or demanded compensation or diplomatic concessions for its return to the US.

Moreover, the casualties the British suffered in the battle of New Orleans from a militia general leading an improvised force marked the US as a tougher adversary than previously credited. That helped to set the US on firmer ground with the British in the ensuing decades.

[DiogenesLamp]

Pretty sure everyone is familiar with the Johnny Horton version, but some years back I was surprised to learn he wasn't the first one to do it.

This guy called "Jimmy Driftwood", and in a lot of ways, I like his version better!

https://youtu.be/SiNWx_IZUj8?si=i-PdwVKKccQWjB5V

Certainly has a lot more and different lyrics.

"Old Hickory said he didn't give a D@mn, he was gonna whip the britches off of Colonel Peckingham."

[Chode]

third time, is Tradition...

[tsomer]

I recall that the internet was down that day.
Remember, that was back before Al Gore.

[Oscar in Batangas]

For an even more irreverent version:

Battle of Camp Kookamonga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0mGFjAySTw&pp=ygUZYmF0dGxlIG9mIGNhbXAga29va2Ftb25nYQ%3D%3D

[Manic_Episode]

Got 86d from my first bar in 83 for singing several verses of “The Girl I left Behind Me” at the top of my lungs.

[Jeff Chandler]

The Battle Of Cucamonga
Homer and Jethro

In Nineteen and fifty-nine we took a little hike
With our Scoutmaster down to Lake Aneekanike
We took a little pizza and we took some sauerkraut
And we marched along together till we heard the Girl Scouts

Chorus:
Oh, we’re the boys from Camp Cucamonga
Our mothers sent us here for to study Nature’s ways
We learn to make sparks by rubbing sticks together
But if we catch the girls then we’ll set the woods ablaze

(And I was made ‘cause me mother sent me up here - ha ha ha)

Well, we crept up to the water and we seed the girls a-swimmin’
There must have been a hunnered of them pretty young women
They looked so fine even birds forgot to sing
We laid down in the poison oak and didn’t say a thing

Chorus

(Hey, will one of you fellers scratch my back?)

Well, our counselor said we could take ‘em by surprise
If we didn’t say a word till we looked ‘em in the eyes
We kept real still, and we had our eyes a-glued
We saw how they were dressed - they were swimming in the...

Chorus

Well, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go
They ran so fast even we couldn’t catch ‘em
From Lake Aneekanike all the way to Buffalo

(Hey, fellers, wait for me!)

Well, we ran right after them till everyone was pooped
So we rested for a minute and our forces we regrouped
Then we saw the girls behind some evergreens
Captured by a company of United States Marines

Chorus

(Ah, them big guys get everything!)

Well, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go
They ran so fast even we couldn’t catch ‘em
From Lake Aneekanike all the way to Buffalo

(A rooty toot toot, a rooty toot toot
Oh, we are the boys from the Boy Scout troop
We don’t smoke, and we don’t chew
And we don’t go with the girls that do!)