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

lyrics by Lund, music by Stan Rogers / Corb Lund

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

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

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

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

And there were none to replace nor to help us face the winters cold and
chilled 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 the vilest enemy

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

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