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I Wanna Be In The Cavalry (Reprise)
Seth Staton Watkins
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I wanna be in the calvaly if they send me off to war
I want a good steed under me like my forefathers before
Courageous at first, we took the worst
Oppositions, 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 city's 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 favorite mare with her head in the air
Took a cannon in her gut
In the first two weeks on that bloody creek
My brother lost his arm
Was only 60 days 'till all we prayed
Was to get us home unharmed
Oh, 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 grand 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 winter's cold and bleak
That chill to the bone and pneumonia prone
And froze our bootless feet
Then the typhoid hit, got us fevered fits
TB and dysentery
That prove 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 burned their crops
To tarred and barren ground
With morale in doubt and our pride run out
No honor did I see
All I seen were a thousand dreams
Piled dead in front of me
I wanna be in the calvalry if they send me off to war
I wanna be in the calvalry, but I won't ride home no more
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