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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 better stand there's no turning back
The bugle sounds as the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As you plunge into a certain death
The horse he sweats with fear we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race towards human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall
We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And as the Russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We won't live to fight another day
We get so close near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds takes 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 draw my parting groan
You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack
You'd better stand there's no turning back
The bugle sounds as the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As you plunge into a certain death
The horse he sweats with fear we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race towards human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall
We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And as the Russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We won't live to fight another day
We get so close near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds takes 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 draw my parting groan
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Even ignoring the above fact, this song isn't about WWI. As the band was specifically inspired by the famous poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, when writing this song. The poem itself is about a a costly and superfluous cavalry charge during the Crimean War. (which pitted the French, Ottoman Empire, and British against the Russian Empire)
While you could be right aside from that, the burst of rounds is mentioned a few times in the song as a firing line armies implemented in early wars when the troops had single shot muskets (You'll fire your musket). The acrid smoke is also referring to gunpowder (potentially dead bodies if not for smoke)
And it's most definitely Russian, Bruce has a pretty clear and enunciated singing voice, you'd be able to hear the p
The American Civil war, which is what I presume people are meaning by just saying the Civil war did not involve Russians.
The war of independence didn't either as far as I know, however it could have due to the fact Russians did land and colonize parts of America.
Also for both of the above, Iron Maiden a British band are more likely to sing about a war more relevant to their country. The British don't care much for the war of independence.
World war 1 there was use of horses in the artillery but not use of muskets, so that rules that one out.
The Napoleonic wars are a good guess however it is more likely to be the Crimean war between The Russian Empire at the time and the British Empire, French Empire, Ottoman empire and the kingdom of Sardinia. It is in fact the battle of balaclava, if you read the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade it will be more clear.
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