I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a Englishman Bonaparte at Waterloo I'm a dragoon on a dun, I'm a on the run I'm a soldier, timeless, through and through Im a soldier, eternal, through and through
I's with and the 7th in 76 or 77 Scalped at Little Big Horn by the And the tears and devistation of a once warrior nation This I cause I was riding with them too
I drank mare's on the run when I rode with the Great Khan On the frozen Mongol steppe while at his I's a Guard, I's a Red Guard, I's the Tsar's own palace horse guard When Romanov was murdered in the
I knew Salah al-Din and his swift Arabians Harassing doomed crusaders on their drafts And yet I rode the Percheron against the circling And once again myself was cast
I've worn the Mounties crimson, if you're silent and you listen You'll know it was with them that I stood When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her horsemen died Gunned in scarlet, coldest blood
I's the firstest the mostest when I fought for Bedford Forrest Suffered General Wilson's raid Mine was not to reason why, was but to do or die At Crimea the charging light brigade
On hire from or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen The devil to the sabre I put With a crack flanking maneuver, I'm an uhlan alles Striking into regiment afoot
I knew my days were numbered oer the trenches lumbered More machinations de la guerre No match for rapid fire or the birds of the sky With a final guard action I retreat No match for barbered or the armoured engines' whine I retire and take my leave
Today I ride with forces on those wily Afghan horses Dostums Northern Alliance give their No matter or victory, in battle it occurs to me That we may see a swelling in our
Is with the at Beersheba took the wells so badly needed And with the Polish lancers charging tanks Saw Ross' mount shot down at Washingtown the night we burned the House down And cursed the sack of and sons of Yanks