>I 'pose you heard ob de battle New Orleans, Whar ole Gineral Jackson gib de British beans;>De Yannkee do de Red Coats up slew slick, For dey cotch old Packenham an rowed him up de crick!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubXiEW40bUAI've been looking for information about this line in the classic Southern minstral song 'Zip Coon,' did the Americans give the British food during or after this battle? Are the 'beans' a reference to the grapeshot that killed General Packenham? Or is it just a nonsense lyric, as was common in these types of songs?
>>18010510https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXfuQqkwa5I
Minstrel lyrics often mixed nonsense syllables with topical references to famous people. The Battle of New Orleans was fresh national mythology in the 1820s–30s, and Jackson was a folk hero, so the song drops him in.
>>18011255A beautiful song and probably the only reason why any modern American knows anything about the war of 1812.>>18012538I think you're absolutely right, but is the lyric about 'giving the British beans' based on anything in real history, or was it included just because it's a funny sounding lyric?
>>18010510he's talking about how American troops castrated bongaloids and fed them their own testicles before leaving them to be gater food
>>18013109Sounds fake but ok.
>>18010510>>18011255https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mIV5NjgcCw
