I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a Englishman Bonaparte at Waterloo I'm a dragoon on a dun, I'm a on the run I'm a horse soldier, timeless, and through Im a horse soldier, eternal, and through
I's with and the 7th in 76 or 77 Scalped at Little Big Horn by the And the tears and devistation of a once proud nation This I know cause I was riding them too
I drank mare's on the run when I rode with 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 horse guard When Romanov was murdered in the
I knew Salah al-Din and his swift Arabians Harassing doomed crusaders on their heavy And yet I rode the Percheron the circling Saracen And once again against myself was
Well I've worn the Mounties crimson, if silent and you listen You'll know that it was them that I stood When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her horsemen died Gunned in scarlet, coldest blood
I's the firstest the mostest when I fought for Bedford Forrest Suffered General Union raid Mine was not to why, mine was but to do or die At Crimea with the light brigade
On hire from or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen The to the sabre I shall put With a crack flanking maneuver, I'm an alles uber Striking terror into afoot
I knew my days were numbered oer the trenches lumbered modern machinations de la guerre No match for rapid fire or the steel of the sky With a rear guard action I retreat No match for barbered wire or the engines' whine Reluctant I and take my leave
Today I ride special forces on those wily Afghan horses Dostums Northern give their thanks No matter or victory, in battle it occurs to me That we may see a swelling in our
Is with the Aussies at Beersheba took the so badly needed And with the Polish lancers charging German Saw Ross' mount shot down at the night we burned the White House down And the sack of York and sons of Yanks