The Trooper [Live Chapter]

[Verse 1]

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too

You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through

So when you're waiting for the next attack

You'd better stand there's no turning back

The bugle sounds, the charge begins

But on this battlefield no one wins

The smell of acrid smoke and horse's breath

As I plunge on into certain death

[Refrain]

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

El Salvador!

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[Verse 2]

The horse he sweats with fear we break to run

The mighty roar of the Russian guns

And as we race toward the human wall

The screams of pain, my comrades fall

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground

And then the Russians fire another round

Get so near, so far away

Won't live to fight another day

[Refrain]

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

El Salvador!

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

[Guitar solo]

[Verse 3]

We get so close, near enough to fight

When a Russian gets me in his sights

Pull the trigger, feel the blow

A burst of rounds take my horse below

As I lay there gazing at the sky

Body's numb, throat is dry

And as I lay forgotten and alone

Without a tear I draw my parting groan

[Refrain]

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Eh-yeah

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