The Rough Riders
The Charge of The 1,250
1,250 rode up the hill
The roughest and toughest we could find
Never stopping to think for their own hide
Some for the last time
Like a bull they charged
In deadly clusters
Easy targets they made a blunder
And down they went Spanish guns clapping like thunder
The best equipment of the time
Procured by good ole Teddy
It was so he could call the regiment mine
Good ole Roosevelt the best of his time
On that day heroes were made
Standing atop the blood soaked hill
The day that history was made
The 1,250 rode up the hill
The Ride of the 1,250 by Benjamin Wilson 33