Come, listen unto this song, I'm as happy as can be,
I'm masher and dasher in the U. S. Cavalrie;
I stand up straight with legs apart; bowed slightly at the knee,
With folded arms across my chest, 'tis the pose of the Cavalrie.

Chorus:

So fill your glasses to the brim
And brace your courage with slow gin,
I will tell you all it is a sin
To serve in the Infantrie.

I'm a cavalryman so fierce and bold, a soldier thru and thru,
I ride a horse because of course 'tis the proper thing to do.
I wear my spurs both night and day that every one may see.
Whatever else I might have been, I'm not in the Infantrie.

We went to fight the China horde with sabre, horse and gun.
We'd meet them and we'd beat them just the way it should be done;
But we left our horses, corn and hay out on the ships in Taku Bay
And consequently had to stay while the dough boys hiked away.

I'm a man of experience, I've been to Fort Monroe,
I've garrisoned Fort Hamilton and the Presidio.
I went out to the Philippines and in the Walled Citie.
I fought the Filipino War in the Coast Artillerie.

Chorus:

So make way for the red stripe man,