I Wanna Be in the Cavalry - Corb Lund

I wanna be in the cavalry if they send me off to war
I wanna good steed under me like my forefathers before
I wanna good mount when the bugle sounds and I hear the cannons' roar
I wanna be in the cavalry if they send me off to war

I wanna horse in the volunteer force that's riding forth at dawn
Please save for me some gallantry that will echo when I'm gone
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long

I'd not a good foot soldier make, I'd be sour and slow at march
And I'd be sick on a navy ship, and the sea would leave me parched
But I'll be first in line if they'll let me ride, by god, you'll see my starch
Lope back o'er the heath with the laurel wreath underneath that victry arch

Let me earn my spurs in the battle's blur where the day is lost or won
I'll wield my lance as the ponies dance and the blackguards fire their guns
A sabre keen, and a saddle carbine and an army Remington
Where the hot lead screams with the cold, cold steel let me be a cavlryman

Let 'em play their flutes and stirrup my boots and place them back to front
For I wont be back on the rider-less black (jack) and I'm finished in my hunt
I wanna be in the cavalry if I must go off to war
I wanna be in the cavalry, but I won't ride home no more

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[mara235]

Is this also used for the 1st Cavalry?

[7thUSCavalryman]

Its not an offical cavalry song for any unit, not yet anyway. :)

Its just an excellent new song about the Cavalry by Corb Lund.

[custerdivision]

I LOVE IT!!!

[RiverRenegade]

Very Good.

[himmler251]

@mara235 FIRST TEAM!!!!

Captain Jackson Smith, Commander 1st Air Cav (airmobile) reenacting division, Alabama

[DET832]

Great song, great vid. Thanks for posting..

[16Canadian]

the uniform he is wearing, what army is it form? if its an american i find it kinda funny, cause he is from alberta, canada

[aardvark154]

Anyone else notice that the "officer" does not have Cavalry shoulder boards.

[poshportia62]

The 7th Cavalry got their butts in a sling again after Little Big Horn, fourteen years later, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. If it wasn't for the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, there would of been a second massacre of the 7th. Rescue at Pine Ridge. com.

[Linkster2o]

Makes you wanna go hunt down hostile injuns don't it?

[lilcal4u55]

great song there calvaryman, my father is a retired army ranger and he just loves this song too. hooah!

[NewOrleansWoman]

I must have missed this video of yours !

good work Cavalryman :-)

[NewOrleansWoman]

oh I must have missed this video of yours !  good work !

[Linkster2o]

This is great, wish we still fought on horseback sometimes