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The Trooper by Iron Maiden

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too
You'll fire your (1)____________ 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 (2)____________ and the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As I plunge on into certain death.

The horse he sweats with fear we break to run
The (3)____________ roar of the (4)______________ guns
And as we race (5)______________ the human wall
The (6)______________ of pain as my (7)________________ fall

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We were (8)__________ to fight another day.

We get so close near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He (9)__________ the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds take my horse below.

And as I lay there (10)____________ at the sky
My body's numb and my throat is dry
And as I lay forgotten and alone
Without a tear I draw my parting groan
Answers:
(1) musket(2) sounds(3) mighty(4) Russian(5) towards(6) screams(7) comrades(8) meant(9) pulls(10) gazing