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The Trooper by Iron Maiden

You'll (1)________ my (2)________ but I'll take yours too
You'll fire (3)________ musket but I'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack
You'd better stand there's no (4)______________ back.

The bugle sounds and the charge begins
But on (5)________ battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As I plunge on into certain death.

The horse he sweats with (6)________ we (7)__________ to run
The mighty roar of the (8)______________ guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall

We (9)____________ bodies that lay on the ground
And the (10)________________ (11)________ (12)______________ round
We get so near yet so far away
We (13)________ meant to fight another day.

We get so (14)__________ (15)________ (16)____________ to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He (17)__________ the trigger and I (18)________ the blow
A (19)__________ of (20)____________ (21)________ my (22)__________ below.

And as I lay there (23)____________ at the sky
My body's (24)________ and my (25)____________ is dry
And as I lay forgotten and alone
Without a (26)________ I (27)________ my parting groan
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