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The Trooper by Iron Maiden

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

The bugle (6)____________ and the charge begins
But on this (7)______________________ no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and (8)____________ breath
As I plunge on into certain death.

The horse he (9)____________ with (10)________ we break to run
The mighty (11)________ of the Russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall

We (12)____________ bodies that lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so (13)________ yet so far away
We (14)________ (15)__________ to (16)__________ another day.

We get so close near enough to fight
When a (17)______________ gets me in his sights
He (18)__________ the trigger and I feel the blow
A (19)__________ of rounds (20)________ my horse below.

And as I lay there (21)____________ at the sky
My body's numb and my throat is dry
And as I lay (22)__________________ and alone
Without a tear I draw my (23)______________ (24)__________
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