I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a wretched Bonaparte 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 and devistation of a once proud warrior nation This I know cause I was riding them too
I drank mare's blood on the run when I with the Great Khan On the frozen Mongol steppe while at his I's a White Guard, I's a Red Guard, I's the Tsar's own palace guard When was murdered in the night
I Salah al-Din and rode his swift Arabians Harassing doomed crusaders on their drafts And yet I rode the Percheron against the Saracen And once again against was cast
Well worn the Mounties crimson, if you're silent and you listen You'll know that it was with that I stood When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her horsemen died Gunned in scarlet, coldest blood
I's the firstest with the mostest I fought for Bedford Forrest Suffered Wilson's Union raid Mine was not to why, mine was but to do or die At Crimea the charging light brigade
On from Swiss or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen The devil to the I shall put With a crack flanking maneuver, I'm an uhlan uber Striking into regiment afoot
I knew my days were when oer the trenches lumbered More modern machinations de la No match for rapid fire or the birds of the sky With a final rear guard action I 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 Dostums Northern Alliance give thanks No matter defeat or victory, in it occurs to me That we may see a swelling in our
Is with the 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 House And the sack of York and sons of Yanks