Misc Traditional – The Cavalcade (Guitar)

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Riding bravely into battle in the ranks of cavalry,

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Galloping we rode together, you were closer than a brother,

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Such a friend you were to me, such a friend you were to me.

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Then the enemy came charging, in his eyes a reckless glow;

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And he thrust his bay’net fiercely, but before that blade could pierce me,

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It was you who took the blow, it was you who took the blow.

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I’ve avenged that mortal wounding that you took for me that day;

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But in that same night, so cold and sad, how I wept for you my comrade;

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Where your lifeless body lay, where your lifeless body lay.

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Now so aimlessly I wander, the most mis’rable of men;

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And that ambush haunts me ceaselessly, for it stole my dearest friend from me,

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I will never laugh again, I will never laugh again.

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O Commander, hear my ballad, let my plea not be ignored;

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But beseech great God in heaven that He’d place my dear companion

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At the right hand of Our Lord, at the right hand of Our Lord.