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I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a wretched Englishman
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Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo
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I'm a dragoon on a dun, I'm a Cossack on the run
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I'm a horse soldier, timeless, through and through
[Verse 1]
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I's with Custer and the 7th in ‘76 or ‘77
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Scalped at Little Big Horn by the Sioux
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And the pain and devastation of a once-proud warrior nation
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This I know ‘cause I was riding with them too
[Verse 2]
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I drank mare's blood on the run when I rode with the Great Khan
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On the frozen Mongol steppe while at his height
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I's a White Guard, I's a Red Guard, I's the Tsar's own palace horse guard
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When Romanov was murdered in the night
[Verse 3]
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I knew Salah al-Din and rode his swift Arabians
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Harassing doomed crusaders on their heavy drafts
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And yet I rode the Percheron against the circling Saracen
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And once again, against myself was cast
[Chorus]
EmAmEm
I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a wretched Englishman
EmB7
Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo
EmAmEmAm
I'm a dragoon on a dun, I'm a Cossack on the run
EmB7Em
I'm a horse soldier, timeless, through and through
[Verse 4]
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Well I've worn the Mounties crimson, if you're silent and you'll listen
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You'll know that it was with them, that I stood
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When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her four horsemen died
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Gunned down in scarlet, coldest blood
[Verse 5]
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I's the firstest with the mostest when I fought for Bedford Forrest
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Suffered General Wilson's Union raid
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Mine was not to reason why, mine was but to do and die
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At Crimea with the charging light brigade
[Verse 6]
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On hire from Swiss or Sweden, be me, Christian, be me heathen
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The devil to the saber I shall put
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With a crack flanking maneuver, I'm an uhlan alles uber
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Striking terror into regiment of foot
[Chorus]
EmAmEm
I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a wretched Englishman
EmB7
Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo
EmAmEmAm
I'm a dragoon on a dun, I'm a Cossack on the run
EmB7Em
I'm a horse soldier, timeless, through and through
[Verse 7] --Slow Strumming--
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I knew my days were numbered when o’er the trenches lumbered
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More modern machinations de la guerre
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No match for rapid fire or the steel birds of the sky
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With a final rear guard action I retreat
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No match for tangled wire or the armoured engines whine
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Reluctant I retire and take my leave
[Verse 8]
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Today I ride with special forces on those wily Afghan horses
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Dostum’s Northern Alliance give their thanks
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No matter defeat or victory, in battle it occurs to me
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That we may see a swelling in our ranks
[Chorus] --Normal Strumming--
EmAmEm
I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a wretched Englishman
EmB7
Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo
EmAmEmAm
I'm a dragoon on a dun, I'm a Cossack on the run
EmB7Em
I'm a horse soldier, timeless, through and through
EmB7Em
I'm a horse soldier, eternal, through and through