Archive for the 'Troopers Poetry' Category

I Wanna Be In The Cavalry….

November 30th, 2003

I Wanna Be In The Cavalry
Video by Corb Lund

And yet another video by Corb Lund that cavalrymen of all ages will enjoy.
Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier

How C Troop Spelled

November 29th, 2003

Of Camp Supply, decades ago, when Trader reigned as King,
And dear old “Jakey” was “K.O.”–these are the times I sing.
By order every man was told to choose a decent name
For his respective mount–it seemed a very easy game;
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Hough!

November 29th, 2003

Pressing here my mossy pillow,
Forms that moulder ‘neath the willow,
Forms that sleep beneath the billow,
Flit and frolic round me now;

Banishing all thought of mourning,
All my dreams with joy adorning,
May they tarry till the morning
Ere they breathe their “Hough!”

“Hough!” boys, “Hough!”–”Hough!” boys, “Hough!”
Let the soldier’s toast be ever “Hough!”

O’Grady

November 28th, 2003

The following versus are based upon a real occurrence from the 2nd Cavalry.

Friday evening, after stables, the sergeant passed the word
That inspection would be mounted, such a “roaring” as was heard,
For the captain was a “corker.” When he looked you in the eye,
You’ ld wish you were a “doughboy,” if he asked the reason why.
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A Bum Bugler

November 27th, 2003

A bugler once tried to bugle “Tatoo.”
The bugle was old, but the bugler was new;
The troops were encamped in a wild sylvan glade,
And the echoes played tag with the discord it made.
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Second Cavalry Song

November 26th, 2003

T’ was in eighteen hundred and thirty-six,
That we fought in the Everglades;
When we showed the Seminole the trick,
That from mem’ ry never fades;
We’ ve been in many a fight since then,
For t’ is there that we belong;
So we’ ve got the right that we earned as men,
To sing the Regiment’ s song.
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The Cavalry Charge, by Benjamin F. Taylor

November 25th, 2003

Hark! the rattling roll of the musketeers,
And the ruffled drums, and the rallying cheers,
And the rifles burn with a keen desire
Like the crackling whips of a hemlock fire,
And the singing shot and the shrieking shell
And the splintered fire on the shattered hell,
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A Cavalryman, by John D. Wells

November 24th, 2003

This is the tale of a trooper -“ a fellow who had no God,
Who earned his pay on a scrubby bay at the left of a ragged squad;
Booted and spurred and cursing, with nary a thought of good,
He made but one of the rosters run of the Fighting Brotherhood.
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The Cavalry Charge, by Francis A. Durivage

November 23rd, 2003

One hand on the sabre,
And one on the rein,
The troopers move forward
In line on the plain.
As rings the word " Gallop! "
The steel scabbards clank,
And each rowel is pressed
To a horses hot flank;
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Twentieth Century March, by Cpt. C.J. Stevens, 2d Cav

November 22nd, 2003

With a past that is full of honor,
With a present full of work;
With faith and hope in the future,
March on and never shirk;
Heads high as we sing to our Standards,
Sit close as we gallop free;
To the Charge, the Charge victorious,
Of the SECOND CAVALRY.

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