Just read an alternate-history story in which Burr is president and starts the war with England earlier. It's told entirely in letters, newspaper articles, etc., including this song: In eighteen-seven, we took a little jaunt, Long with Gen'ral Jackson down the frothin' St. Laurent. We took a little bacon and we took a little corn, And we fought the bloody British near the tow'rin' Fort Dearborn. Chorus: Fired our guns, and the British kept a-comin', 'Twan't nigh as many as they was a while before. Fired once more and they began a-runnin', Down the St. Laurenty to the gray Atlantic shore! (From: Jayge Carr. "The War of '07." In: Mike Resnick, ed. Alternate Presidents. New York: Tor, 1992)
In eighteen-seven, we took a little jaunt, Long with Gen'ral Jackson down the frothin' St. Laurent. We took a little bacon and we took a little corn, And we fought the bloody British near the tow'rin' Fort Dearborn. Chorus: Fired our guns, and the British kept a-comin', 'Twan't nigh as many as they was a while before. Fired once more and they began a-runnin', Down the St. Laurenty to the gray Atlantic shore! ??? :
