Luyện nghe bài hát I Wanna Be In The Cavalry : Reprise

lyrics by Corb Lund, music by Rogers / Corb Lund

I be in the cavalry if they send me off to war
I good steed under me like my forefathers before

Courageous at first we took their worst, our positions we stout
We clung to and we hung on the speech from our trusted leaders mouths
Overwhelming odds and a cause and our cities overrun
There were that said we was badly led and God were we outgunned

I lost count of the mounts that from under me were cut
My favourite mare her head in the air took the cannons in her gut
In the first two weeks on that creek my brother lost his arm
Was sixty days till all we prayed was get us home unharmed

O for the day that we signed our names and the well we were wished
The mens congrats and the pats on the and the ladies that we kissed
The band played and the grande parade and the patriotic shouts
All fast, didn't even last till the uniforms wore out

And there were none to replace nor to help us face the cold and bleak
That to the bone the pneumonia prone and froze our bootless feet
Then the typhoid hit its fevered fits, TB and dysentery
That proved in the end to have killed more men than the vilest

We were forced to feed on horse and carcass we could scrounge
When the wagons stopped and wed their crops to charred and barren ground
With morale in and our pride run out no honour did I see
All I seen were a thousand piled dead in front of me

I wanna be in the cavalry if the me off to war
I wanna be in the cavalry but I wont home no more