The Universal Soldier
Buffy St. Marie/Donovan
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He's | five feet | two, and he's | six feet | four, |
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he | fights with | missiles and with | spears. | | |
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He's | all of thirty- | one, and he's | only seven | teen, |
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he's been a | soldier | for a thousand | years. | | | | | |
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He's a | Catholic, a | Hindu, and | atheist, a | Jain, |
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a | Buddhist, and a | Baptist, and a | Jew. | | |
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And he | knows he shouldn't | kill, and he | knows he always | will, |
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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, he's 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 wall. | |
But without him how would Hitler have condemned them at Dachau, | |
without him Caesar would have stood alone. | |
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the 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 here and there and you and me - | |
and brothers can't you see, | |
this is not a way we put an end to war. | |
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