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's with Custer and the 7th in 76 or 77
Scalped at Little Big Horn by the Sioux
And the tears and devistation of a once proud warrior nation
This I know cause I was riding with them too

I drank mare's blood on the run when I rode with the Great Khan
On the frozen Mongol steppe while at his height
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

I knew Salah al-Din and rode his swift Arabians
Harassing doomed crusaders on their heavy drafts
And yet I rode the Percheron against the circling Saracen
And once again against myself was cast

Well I've worn the Mounties crimson, if you're silent and you 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, coldest blood

I's the firstest with the mostest when I fought for Bedford Forrest
Suffered General Wilson's Union raid
Mine was not to reason why, mine was but to do or 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 afoot

I knew my days were numbered when oer 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 armoured engines' whine
Reluctant I retire and take my leave

Today I ride with special forces on those wily Afghan horses
Dostums Northern Alliance give their thanks
No matter defeat or victory, in battle it occurs to me
That we may see a swelling in our ranks

Great song but it did cause Corb a little controversy as I recall.....

For clarity, I'm referring to Subcanis video post, not the OP.

 

Got to meet him.  Great guy.  He's a history buff, pure and simple.  

They took away our dog tags, they made us cut our hair........

Not sure what your referencing but the controversy was caused by the tune to I Want To Be In The Cavalry.  As it turned out, the tune was from a a Stan Rogers song called The Idiot.  The album/song was released without crediting Rogers.  Within a week or two, Corb Lund remedied the credit and apologized.  There was letter/entry on his website at the time where he explained that he meant no disrespect and had probably heard the Rogers song years earlier and not realized that he later utilized it for his song thinking it was his own.

Corb is a great artist, no doubt and I wholeheartedly believe his explanation.

Yup, Met him at the Elko Poetry Gathering a few years ago and talked to him about 1911's and the adoption by the US Cav for like an hour. Cool guy!
HELLACIOUS live show.



 

Corb is an absolute genius or has some sort of divine inspiration. I just don't know how a man could do it, and this song is probably his greatest example.

 Yeah I butchered the lyrics a bit.

nice song

 

too bad the guy who put the images to the tune for that video lacked much knowledge of history, too many images were of the wrong thing, showing Bizantine Cataphract for 'englishman' (probably thought it was a knight) heck, included an image from the Dragonlance fantasy novels of a dragon/man hybrid on a horse apparently intepreted to be a mongol!?!?!?!

I'll let him know.  

great song!

Not pertaining to horses, but a Corb Lund song in the same genre.  
Corb Lund-Student Visas



ETA: Too slow!