I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a wretched Routing 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 horse soldier, eternal, and through
I's Custer and the 7th in 76 or 77 Scalped at Big Horn by the Sioux And the tears and devistation of a once proud warrior I know cause I was riding with them too
I drank mare's blood on the run when I rode with the Great On the Mongol steppe while at his height I's a Guard, I's a Red Guard, I's the Tsar's own palace horse guard When Romanov was in the night
I knew Salah and rode his swift Arabians Harassing doomed crusaders on their heavy And yet I the Percheron against the circling Saracen And once again against myself was
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 down in scarlet, coldest blood
I's the with the mostest when I fought for Bedford Forrest Suffered General Union raid Mine was not to reason why, was but to do or die At Crimea the charging light brigade
On hire Swiss or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen The devil to the sabre I put With a crack maneuver, I'm an uhlan alles uber Striking terror regiment afoot
I knew my days were when oer the trenches lumbered modern machinations de la guerre No match for rapid fire or the steel of the sky With a final guard action I retreat No for barbered wire or the armoured engines' whine Reluctant I retire and my leave
Today I ride with special forces on 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 took the wells so badly And with the Polish lancers charging tanks Saw Ross' mount shot down at the night we burned the White House down And cursed the sack of and sons of Yanks