«The Trooper» es una canción de Iron Maiden, lanzada en 1983 como parte de su álbum Piece of Mind. Esta canción de heavy metal narra la historia de un soldado británico durante la Guerra de Crimea, que lucha contra los rusos y muere en el campo de batalla. La letra se basa en la poesía de Alfred Lord Tennyson, «The Charge of the Light Brigade». La canción se ha convertido en una de las más conocidas de Iron Maiden, con una melodía pegadiza y una letra inspiradora.
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 and 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
Oh!
Oh!
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
Oh!
Oh!
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
Oh!
Oh!
