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Corb Lund - I Wanna Be In the Cavalry: Reprise Lyrics

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

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