I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a wretched 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 Custer 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 know cause I was riding with too
I drank mare's blood on the run when I rode the Great Khan On the Mongol steppe while at his height I's a White Guard, I's a Red Guard, I's the Tsar's own palace horse When Romanov was murdered in the
I Salah al-Din and rode his swift Arabians Harassing doomed crusaders on their heavy And yet I the Percheron against the circling Saracen And once against myself was cast
Well I've worn the Mounties crimson, if you're silent and you know that it was with them that I stood When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her four died 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 reason why, was but to do or die At Crimea with the charging light
On from Swiss or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen The devil to the I shall put a crack flanking maneuver, I'm an uhlan alles uber Striking into regiment afoot
I knew my were numbered when oer the trenches lumbered More modern de la guerre No for rapid fire or the steel birds of the sky With a final rear guard action I No for barbered wire or the armoured engines' whine Reluctant I retire and take my
Today I ride with special forces on wily Afghan horses Dostums Northern Alliance their thanks No defeat or victory, in battle it occurs to me we may see a swelling in our ranks
Is the Aussies at Beersheba took the wells so badly needed And with the Polish lancers charging German Saw Ross' mount shot down at Washingtown the night we burned the White down And the sack of York and sons of Yanks