without him all this killing can't go on

[NotGivingUp]

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
Buffy Sainte-Marie
© Caleb Music-ASCAP

Buffy Sainte-Marie said, "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 foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

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 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 him 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 the way we put the end to war.

Chords:- F,G7,C,Am Dm,Em

great song...great words

[derby378]

1. Are you saying...

...that you're the one responsible for writing this song?

Might want to check the way that post was written. If indeed you did write the song, you done great, but if not, you might want to tweak the post a little bit.

[NotGivingUp]

2. thanks, i didn't notice that....i edited to add buffy's name

[pocoloco]

3. Buffy Sainte-Marie