I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a Englishman Bonaparte at Waterloo I'm a on a dun, I'm a Cossack on the run I'm a horse soldier, timeless, and through Im a soldier, eternal, through and through
I's Custer and the 7th in 76 or 77 at Little Big Horn by the Sioux And the tears and devistation of a proud warrior nation This I know I was riding with them too
I drank mare's blood on the run when I with the Great Khan On the frozen steppe while at his height I's a White Guard, I's a Red Guard, I's the Tsar's own palace horse Romanov was murdered in the night
I knew Salah and rode his swift Arabians Harassing crusaders on their heavy drafts And yet I rode the Percheron against the Saracen And once again against myself was
Well I've worn the Mounties crimson, if you're and you listen You'll that it was with them that I stood Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her four horsemen died Gunned down in scarlet, blood
I's the firstest with the mostest when I fought for Forrest Suffered General Union raid was not to reason why, mine was but to do or die At Crimea with the charging light
On hire from Swiss or Sweden, be me Christian, be me The to the sabre I shall put With a crack flanking maneuver, I'm an uhlan uber terror into regiment afoot
I knew my days were when oer the trenches lumbered More modern machinations de la No match for fire or the steel birds of the sky With a final guard action I retreat No match for barbered wire or the armoured engines' Reluctant I and take my leave
I ride with special forces on those wily Afghan horses Dostums Northern Alliance give their No matter defeat or victory, in it occurs to me That we may see a swelling in our
Is the Aussies at Beersheba took the wells so badly needed And with the Polish lancers German tanks Saw Ross' mount shot down at the night we burned the White House down And the sack of York and sons of Yanks