I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a Englishman Routing at Waterloo I'm a dragoon on a dun, I'm a on the run I'm a horse soldier, timeless, through and Im a horse soldier, eternal, and through
I's with and the 7th in 76 or 77 Scalped at Little Big by the Sioux And the tears and devistation of a once proud nation This I know cause I was riding with too
I drank blood on the run when I rode with the Great Khan On the frozen Mongol steppe at his height I's a Guard, I's a Red Guard, I's the Tsar's own palace horse guard Romanov was murdered in the night
I Salah al-Din and rode his swift Arabians doomed crusaders on their heavy drafts And yet I rode the against the circling Saracen And once again myself was cast
I've worn the Mounties crimson, if you're silent and you listen You'll know that it was with them I stood When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her four horsemen Gunned down in scarlet, coldest
I's the firstest with the mostest when I for Bedford Forrest Suffered Wilson's Union raid Mine was not to why, mine was but to do or die At Crimea with the light brigade
On hire from or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen The devil to the sabre I put a crack flanking maneuver, I'm an uhlan alles uber Striking terror into regiment
I knew my days were numbered when oer the trenches More modern machinations de la No match for rapid fire or the birds of the sky a final rear guard action I retreat No match for barbered wire or the engines' whine Reluctant I and take my leave
Today I with special forces on those wily Afghan horses Northern Alliance give their thanks No matter defeat or victory, in battle it to me we may see a swelling in our ranks
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 we burned the White House down And cursed the sack of York and sons of