From Fate by Lee Dorsey (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2004), page 19 [I have rearranged the line breaks to emphasize the rhyme pattern.]:


John Bull's soldiers were vanquished by an enemy who combined the most savage traits of both races. Read the words that were sung by these mountain men after the Battle of New Orleans.

We made a bank just nipple high behind which we was layin',
And when the Redcoats come in sight, we started out a-slayin.

We fed them lead fer breakfast and we fed them lead fer dinner,
And the ones that didn't say their prayers went straight to hell a sinner.

We shot them in their big round eyes; we shot their chins and noses.
We shot all the buttons off their coats as red as roses.

When we first went to New Orleans, they said, "John Bull's a-comin'."
When we'd been there a mighty short time, they said, "John Bull's a-runnin'."

When we got through a-shootin' them, ye should of heerd [something missing here?]
'Cause we went out and got their hair and sent their skelps to dryin'.


[This book seems rather amateurishly written and published. I doubt this is the pop/R&B singer Lee Dorsey who died in 1986.]