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"I wrote 'Universal Soldier' in the basement of The Purple Onion<br></br>
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."<br></br>
~ <i>Buffy Sainte-Marie</i><br></br>
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<b>He's five feet two and he's six feet four<br></br>
He fights with missiles and with spears<br></br>
He's all of 31 and he's only 17<br></br>
He's been a soldier for a thousand years<br></br>
<br></br>
He's a Catholic, a…</b>
"I wrote 'Universal Soldier' in the basement of The Purple Onion<br />
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."<br />
~ <i>Buffy Sainte-Marie</i><br />
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<b>He's five feet two and he's six feet four<br />
He fights with missiles and with spears<br />
He's all of 31 and he's only 17<br />
He's been a soldier for a thousand years<br />
<br />
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,<br />
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew<br />
and he knows he shouldn't kill<br />
and he knows he always will<br />
kill you for me my friend and me for you<br />
<br />
And he's fighting for Canada,<br />
he's fighting for France,<br />
he's fighting for the USA,<br />
and he's fighting for the Russians<br />
and he's fighting for Japan,<br />
and he thinks we'll put an end to war this way<br />
<br />
And he's fighting for Democracy<br />
and fighting for the Reds<br />
He says it's for the peace of all<br />
He's the one who must decide<br />
who's to live and who's to die<br />
and he never sees the writing on the walls<br />
<br />
But without him how would Hitler have<br />
condemned him at Dachau<br />
Without him Caesar would have stood alone<br />
He's the one who gives his body<br />
as a weapon to a war<br />
and without him all this killing can't go on<br />
<br />
He's the universal soldier and he<br />
really is to blame<br />
His orders come from far away no more<br />
They come from him, and you, and me<br />
and brothers can't you see<br />
this is not the way we put an end to war.</b><br />
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