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The Trooper by Iron Maiden

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too
You'll (1)________ your (2)____________ but I'll run you through
So (3)________ you're (4)______________ for the next attack
You'd better (5)__________ there's no (6)______________ back.

The bugle sounds and the (7)____________ begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of (8)__________ (9)__________ and horses breath
As I plunge on into certain death.

The horse he (10)____________ with (11)________ we break to run
The (12)____________ (13)________ of the Russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my (14)________________ fall

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We (15)________ (16)__________ to fight another day.

We get so close (17)________ enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I (18)________ the blow
A burst of (19)____________ take my horse below.

And as I lay there (20)____________ at the sky
My body's (21)________ and my throat is dry
And as I lay forgotten and alone
Without a (22)________ I draw my (23)______________ groan
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