You'll take my life
but I'll take yours too
You'll fire your musket
but I'll
run you through
So when you're waiting
for the next attack
You'd better stand
there's no turning back
The bugle sounds
and the charge begins
But on this
battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid
smoke and horses breath
As I plunge on into
certain death
Oh oh
The horse he sweats
with fear
we break to run
The mighty roar of
the Russian guns
And as we race towards
the human wall
The screams of pain as
my comrades fall
We hurdle bodies that
lay on the ground
And the Russians
fire another round
We get so near
yet so far away
We won't live
to fight another day
Oh oh
We get so close
near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me
in his sights
He pulls the trigger
and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds take
my horse below
And as I lay there
gazing at the sky
My body's numb
and my throat is dry
And as I lay
forgotten and alone
Without a tear
I draw my parting groan
Oh oh