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Friday, November 30, 2007

i love you buffy

and here she is singing universal soldier
buffy sainte marie



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 atheist, 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.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love her. From Sesame Street to Protest Marches, she was always prescient, brilliant, and important.

umm, Rose, your comments won't allow me to use my name/link anymore.

- CV Rick

Unknown said...

i noticed something funky with the comments earlier today. they now have a 'nickname'??? i don't get it

anyway, i loved her before during and after sesame street. although i must say i hope i never hear up where we belong ever again. i don't even think i've ever heard it by her but everyone else in the entire universe

Anonymous said...

Tomorrow I rant against Blogger and LiveJournal.
- rick

Unknown said...

i stand forewarned!