Fun Music Information -> Johnny Horton
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Misspellings and other Alternate Names:
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Jimmie Driftwood / Johnny HortonSong Titles Not Used as Lyrics:
Song Name | Comments & Submitter Name |
| "The Battle Of New Orleans" | The word "battle" does not occur in the lyrics. - Thessaly Danes |
Add a Letter To a Song Title:
"Stink The Bismarck" originally "Sink The Bismarck"
Wendy Torrance
Change a Letter In a Song Title:
"The Cattle Of New Orleans" originally "The Battle Of New Orleans"
Samantha Wayland
Song Parodies:
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "Battle of New Orleans" | "Battle of the Detainees" | Timmy1000 |
| "Sink The Bismarck" | "Save The Chobit" | Airrider |
| "North to Alaska" | "She's From Alaska" | Rich Verdugo |
| "Sink The Bismark" | "Sink The Biscuits" | Airfarcewon |
| "Sink the Bismarck" | "Sink the Taxpayer" | Patrick McWilliams |
| "North to Alaska" | "North to Arapture" | John A. Barry |
| "North To Alaska" | "She's From Alaska" | Malcolm Higgins |
| "Sink The Bismarck" | "Trash The Palin" | Old Man Ribber |
| "The Battle of New Orleans" | "The Ballad of Pork and Beans" | Tim Mayfield |
| "The Battle of New Orleans" | "The Saddest of New York Teams" | Ethan Mawyer |
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Duets Not Yet Performed:
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| You Send Me Sam Cooke | North To Alaska Johnny Horton | You Send Me North To Alaska | Candace Mercer |
Misheard Lyrics:
"North To Alaska"
Misheard Lyrics: North to Alaska
We're going north to the Russian Zone. Original Lyrics: North to Alaska
We're going north, the rush is on. | "North To Alaska"
Misheard Lyrics: North to Alaska
Goin' north to Russia's zone. Original Lyrics: North to Alaska
Go North, the rush is on. |
"North to Alaska"
Misheard Lyrics: North to Alaska
We're going north, to Russia's zone. Original Lyrics: North to Alaska
We're going north, the rush is on. | "Battle Of New Orleans"
Misheard Lyrics: They ran so fast like a house full of ketchup.
Original Lyrics: They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em.
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Misheard Lyrics Story:
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"North To Alaska"
Misheard Lyrics: North to Alaska
We're going north to the Russian Zone. Original Lyrics: North to Alaska
We're going north, the rush is on. |
Story about this misheard lyric by: Hal Smith Young female friend (about age 15 at the time the song came out) used to sing the misheard lyrics while we danced to it. She took a while to convince her of the true lyrics, and even then she remained skeptical. |
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Funny Lyrics:
"North To Alaska"
The Funny Lyrics: North to alaska!,go north,the rush,is on!,north to alaska!
Why They're Funny: Where else would,alaska be,south?
Submitted by: Art
| "Battle Of New Orleans "
The Funny Lyrics: We fired our cannon 'till the barrel melted down so we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round. We filled his head with cannonballs, powdered his behind and when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind.
Why They're Funny: Just too funny! But seriously, do you think animal activists would like to hear about a gator having its head blown off?
Submitted by: Jo, Newcastle, Australia
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Inappropriate Lyrics:
"North to Alaska"
The Inappropriate Lyrics: Beneath that big white mountain
Just a little South-East of Nome Why They're Inappropriate: ...not too many mountains se of Nome, just water.
Submitted by: Steve
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Dated Lyrics:
"North To Alaska"
The Dated Lyrics: Big Sam left Seattle in the year of ninety-two.
Why They're Dated: The assumption that would seem to apply here is that 'the year of ninety-two' must refer to the most recent year called 'ninety-two'. That meant 1892, as intended, when the song came out in 1959. But now 1892 is no longer the most recent 'year of ninety-two', so there is nothing from the words alone (without knowing when the song was written or the historical context that it refers to) to keep one from assuming that 1992 is what is meant.
Submitted by: Naomi Swanson
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Song Lyrics That Name Check Celebrities:
"Sink The Bismarck"
The Lyrics: Churchill told the people
'Put ev'ry ship a-sail' Who They Mention: Winston Churchill
Submitted by: Britney Spears into pruning hooks
| "The Battle Of New Orleans"
The Lyrics: In eightteen and fourteen
we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip' Who They Mention: Andrew Jackson
Submitted by: Marianne Blackwelder
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Real Places Mentioned in Songs:
"The Battle Of New Orleans"
The Lyrics: We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. Why: Refers to the Mississippi River and the Gulf Of Mexico.
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
| "The Battle Of New Orleans"
The Lyrics: And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.
Why: Refers to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
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Song Title Acrostics:
BONO: "Battle Of New Orleans"
Submitted by: Regina Olsen
