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 soldier, timeless, through and through Im a soldier, eternal, through and through
I's Custer and the 7th in 76 or 77 at Little Big Horn by the Sioux And the tears and devistation of a once warrior nation This I cause I was riding with them too
I drank mare's blood on the run when I rode with the Khan On the frozen Mongol steppe 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 knew Salah al-Din and rode his swift Harassing doomed crusaders on their drafts And yet I the Percheron against the circling Saracen And again against myself was cast
Well I've worn the crimson, if you're silent and you listen know that it was with them that I stood When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her four died Gunned in scarlet, coldest blood
I's the firstest with the mostest I fought for Bedford Forrest General Wilson's Union raid Mine was not to why, mine was but to do or die At Crimea with the charging brigade
On hire from or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen The devil to the sabre I put With a flanking maneuver, I'm an uhlan alles uber Striking into regiment afoot
I knew my days were numbered when oer the trenches modern machinations de la guerre No match for rapid fire or the steel of the sky With a final rear action I retreat No match for barbered wire or the armoured whine Reluctant I and take my leave
Today I with 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 in our ranks
Is the Aussies at Beersheba took the wells so badly needed And with the Polish lancers German tanks Saw Ross' mount shot down at Washingtown the night we the White House down And cursed the sack of York and of Yanks