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    I’m a hussar, I’m a Hun, I’m a wretched Englishman

    Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo

    I’m a dragoon on a dun, I’m a Cossack on the run

    I’m a horse soldier, timeless, through and through


    Well I’s with Custer and the 7th in ‘76 or ‘77

    Scalped at Little Big Horn by the Sioux

    And the tears and devastation of a once proud warrior nation

    This I know ‘cause I was riding with them too


    And I drank mare’s blood on the run when I rode with the Great Khan

    On the frozen Mongol steppe while at his height

    And I’s a White Guard, I’s a Red Guard, I’s the Tsar’s own palace horse guard

    When Romanov was murdered in the night


    And I knew Saladin and rode his swift Arabians

    Harassing doomed crusaders on their heavy drafts

    And yet I rode the Percheron against the circling Saracen

    Once again against myself was cast


    Well I’m a hussar, I’m a Hun, I’m a wretched Englishman

    Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo

    I’m a dragoon on a dun, I’m a Cossack on the run

    I’m a horse soldier, timeless, through and through


    Well I’ve worn the Mounties’ crimson, if you’re silent and you’ll listen

    You’ll know that it was with them that I stood

    When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her four horsemen died

    Gunned down in scarlet, cold as blood


    I’s the ‘fustest with the mostest’ when I fought for Bedford Forrest

    Suffered General Wilson’s Union raid

    And mine was not to reason why, mine was but to do and die

    At Crimea with the charging light brigade


    On hire from Swiss or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen

    The devil to the sabre I shall put

    With a crack flanking maneuver, I’m an uhlan alles uber

    Striking terror into regiment of foot


    Well I’m a hussar, I’m a Hun, I’m a wretched Englishman

    Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo

    I’m a dragoon on a dun, I’m a Cossack on the run

    I’m a horse soldier, timeless, through and through


    I knew my days were numbered when o’er the trenches lumbered

    More modern machinations de la guerre

    No match for rapid fire or the steel birds of the sky

    With a final rear guard action I retreat

    No match for barbered wire or the armored engines whine

    Reluctant I retire and take my leave


    Today I ride with special forces on those wily Afghan horses

    Dostum’s Northern Alliance give their thanks

    And no matter defeat or victory, in battle it occurs to me

    That we may see a swelling in our ranks


    I’m a hussar, I’m a Hun, I’m a wretched Englishman

    Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo

    I’m a dragoon on a dun, I’m a Cossack on the run

    I’m a horse soldier, timeless, through and through

    I’m a horse soldier, eternal, through and through


    I’s with the Aussies at Beersheba took the wells so badly needed

    And with the Polish lancers charging German tanks

    Saw Ross’ mount shot down at Washingtown the night we burned the White House down

    And cursed the sack of York and sons of Yanks