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The Trooper by Iron Maiden

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 (1)____________ stand there's no turning back.

The bugle sounds and the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The (2)__________ 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 Russian guns
And as we (4)________ towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall

We hurdle (5)____________ (6)________ lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We were meant to fight another day.

We get so close near (7)____________ to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He (8)__________ the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of (9)____________ take my horse below.

And as I lay there gazing at the sky
My body's numb and my throat is dry
And as I lay forgotten and alone
Without a tear I (10)________ my parting groan
Answers:
(1) better(2) smell(3) mighty(4) race(5) bodies(6) that(7) enough(8) pulls(9) rounds(10) draw