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Donovan - Universal Soldier (Official Audio)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Donovan
Donovan
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Terry Kennedy
Terry Kennedy
Producer
Geoff Stephens
Geoff Stephens
Producer
Peter Eden
Peter Eden
Producer

Lyrics

He's five foot-two and he's six feet-four He fights with missiles and with spears He's all of 31 and he's only 17 Been a soldier for a thousand year He'a 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 U.S.A 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 Labau? 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 the way we put the end to war
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