Faithful Hussar

"The Faithful Hussar" is the English name of "Der treue Husar", a German folk song that became a dance-band and jazz number in the 1950s. This page has the Faithful Hussar chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "Faithful Hussar"

No one is credited with it: the song is traditional, a soldier's love song from the German-speaking lands, long sung at carnival time in the Rhineland.

Recordings that made it a standard

• Louis Armstrong (1956) — "The Faithful Hussar (Don't Cry My Love)".