I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a Englishman Routing Bonaparte at I'm a dragoon on a dun, I'm a on the run I'm a soldier, timeless, through and through 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 warrior This I know cause I was riding with too
I drank mare's blood on the run when I with the Great Khan On the frozen Mongol steppe at his height I's a White Guard, I's a Red Guard, I's the Tsar's own palace horse When was murdered in the night
I knew Salah al-Din and rode his swift Harassing doomed on their heavy drafts And yet I rode the Percheron the circling Saracen And again against myself was cast
Well 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 four died Gunned in scarlet, coldest blood
I's the firstest with the mostest I fought for Bedford Forrest Suffered General Wilson's Union Mine was not to why, mine was but to do or die At Crimea with the charging light
On hire from or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen The devil to the I shall put With a crack flanking maneuver, I'm an uhlan alles Striking terror into afoot
I knew my days were numbered when oer the lumbered More machinations de la guerre No match for rapid or the steel birds of the sky With a final rear guard I retreat No match for barbered wire or the engines' whine Reluctant I and take my leave
I ride with special forces on those wily Afghan horses Dostums Alliance give their thanks No defeat or victory, in battle it occurs to me That we may see a in our ranks
Is with the Aussies at Beersheba the wells so badly needed And with the Polish lancers German tanks Saw Ross' mount shot down at Washingtown the night we burned the White down And cursed the of York and sons of Yanks