[Leica] Cricket images MCG

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

You know, I actually remember listening to that LP as a young boy here in
Australia. There was a track about sinking the Bismarck that took my fancy
as a young boy into battleships etc!
Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Ric Carter
Sent: Wednesday, 3 January 2007 10:15
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Cricket images MCG

I remember listening to Johnny Horton singing that while visiting my  
first bowling alley in Norfolk, Virginian, Tidewater 4- 1009;^)

Thanks for the memories....

Ric


  On Jan 2, 2007, at 6:32 PM, SonC@aol.com wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
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