HORSES OF WAR
Brenn Hill/Red Cliffs Press Music (BMI)

Chorus:
Horses of war run against the guns
Arrows in the flanks bullets in the lungs
A sacred place in history is what you're fightin' for
Run against the guns horses of war
Run against the guns horses of war

Verse 1:
Vercingetorix led the united Gaelic tribes
He raided Roman soldiers on Roman supply lines
Til Caesar broke the stonewall twas the sentry's greatest fear
In came the Roman cavalry runnin against the spear

Verse 2:
Alexander the Great was just thirteen years old
When the war horse Bucephalus was gifted as a foal
Through many bloody battles he carried the king
Til the battle at Hydaspes his end did it bring

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Verse 3:
Marengo was the stallion of Napolean Bonaparte
A small but fierce Arabian his life was rife and hard
Wounded many times in battle til the fall of Waterloo
His bones still on display today for history to view

Verse 4:
General George Washington was horseman like no other
The war horse known as Nelson was George's spirit brother
He was sixteen hands and fearless even to the cannon's fire
Til Cornwallis surrendered in all his English ire

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Verse 5:
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse refused US command
To take to reservation far from their birthright land
They built a mounted army sieged at Little Bighorn
Rode hard into the battle til Custer was forlorn

Verse 6:
On again through history to Britain's World War 1
The war horse did so much more than run against the gun
They carried off the wounded artillery and supplies
And across the bloody trenches charging through the battle cries

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Verse 7:
Technological terror is what we've all become
With unmanned bomber drones that fly high as the sun
And warheads under radar flying halfway cross the earth
Far faster can we kill than can we bring to birth

Verse 8:
Yet twelve Green Beret soldiers deep in Afghanistan
Turned into mounted warriors modern cavalrymen
They fought with Afghan rebels they made a desperate run
Down through the narrow valley runnin' against the guns

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