The Trooper -- Iron Maiden

You take my life but I'll take yours too  You fire your musket but I run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack You'd better stand there's no turning back.
The bugle sounds - the charge begins  But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath  As I plunge on into certain death.


The horse he sweats with fear - we break to run  The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall  The screams of pain as my comrades fall.
We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground  And 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 take 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.

This song is based on the Crimean War, which was fought by the Russians and the Ottoman Empire (England, France, and Sardinia). There are several mentions of the Russians such as, "The mighty roar of the Russian guns" and "When a Russian gets me in his sights."                                                                                                                (songfacts)

        

The Crimean War (October 1853 – February 1856) was a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. Most of the conflict took place on the Crimean Peninsula, but there were smaller campaigns in western Anatolia, Caucasus, the Baltic Sea, the Pacific Ocean and the White Sea.                            (wikipedia)