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