Universal Soldier
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
Buffy Sainte-Marie
© Caleb Music-ASCAP
I wrote "Universal
Soldier" in the basement of The Purple Onion coffee house in
Toronto in the early sixties. It's
about individual responsibility for war and how the old feudal
thinking kills us all. Donovan had a hit with it in 1965.
He's
five feet two and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with
spears
He's all of 31 and he's
only 17
He's been a soldier for a
thousand years
He's a
Catholic, a Hindu, an athiest, a Jain,
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a
Jew
and he knows he shouldn't
kill
and he knows he always will
kill you for me my friend and me
for you
And he's fighting
for Canada,
he's fighting for
France,
he's fighting for the
USA,
and he's fighting for the
Russians
and he's fighting for
Japan,
and he thinks we'll put an
end to war this way
And
he's fighting for Democracy
and
fighting for the Reds
He says
it's for the peace of all
He's
the one who must decide
who's to
live and who's to die
and he
never sees the writing on the walls
But without him how would
Hitler have
condemned him at
Dachau
Without him Caesar would
have stood alone
He's the one who
gives his body
as a weapon to a
war
and without him all this
killing can't go on
He's
the universal soldier and he
really is to blame
His orders come from far away no
more
They come from him, and you,
and me
and brothers can't you see
this is not the way we put an end
to war.
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©2003 Buffy Sainte-Marie
Posted: So - Februar 29, 2004 at 12:37 Uhr