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 soldier, timeless, through and through Im a soldier, eternal, through and through
I's Custer and the 7th in 76 or 77 Scalped at Little Big by the Sioux And the tears and devistation of a once proud 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 Mongol while at his height I's a White Guard, I's a Red Guard, I's the own palace horse guard When Romanov was in the night
I knew Salah al-Din and rode his swift Harassing doomed crusaders on heavy drafts And yet I rode the Percheron against the circling 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 them that I stood When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her horsemen died Gunned down in scarlet, coldest
I's the firstest with the mostest when I for Bedford Forrest General Wilson's Union raid Mine was not to why, mine was but to do or die At with 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 terror into 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 a final rear guard action I retreat No match for barbered wire or the armoured engines' Reluctant I and take my leave
Today I ride with special forces on those Afghan horses Dostums Northern Alliance give thanks No matter or victory, in battle it occurs to me That we may see a swelling in our
Is the Aussies at Beersheba took the wells so badly needed And the Polish lancers charging German tanks Saw Ross' mount shot down at Washingtown the night we burned the White House And cursed the sack of York and sons of