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