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作曲 : Corby Lund |
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I wanna be in the cavalry if they send me off to war |
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I wanna good steed under me like my forefathers before |
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Courageous at first we took their worst, our positions we held stout |
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We clung to belief and we hung on the speech from our trusted leaders' mouths |
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Overwhelming odds and a hopeless cause and our cities overrun |
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There were them that said we was badly led and God were we outgunned |
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I lost count of the worthy mounts that from under me were cut |
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My favourite mare with her head in the air took the cannons in her gut |
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In the first two weeks on that bloody creek my brother lost his arm |
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Was only sixty days till all we prayed was get us home unharmed |
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O for the day that we signed our names and the well that we were wished |
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The men's congrats and the pats on the backs and the ladies that we kissed |
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The band that played and the grande parade and the patriotic shouts |
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All faded fast, didn't even last till the uniforms wore out |
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And there were none to replace nor to help us face the winters cold and bleak |
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That chilled to the bone the pneumonia prone and froze our bootless feet |
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Then the typhoid hit with its fevered fits, TB and dysentery |
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That proved in the end to have killed more men than the vilest enemy |
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We were finally forced to feed on horse and carcass we could scrounge |
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When the wagons stopped and we'd burnt their crops to charred and barren ground |
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With morale in doubt and our pride run out no honour did I see |
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All I seen were a thousand dreams piled dead in front of me |
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I wanna be in the cavalry if they send me off to war |
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I wanna be in the cavalry but I won't ride home no more |
