THE UNIVERSAL SOLDIER - Buffy Sainte-Marie on the meaning of her song and performance...

pawnstorm12 Wed, 03/06/2019 - 23:17
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"I was stranded at San Francisco airport on my way to Toronto.

It was the middle of the night and some soldiers came in wheeling their buddies on stretchers and wheelchairs.

These guys were all bandaged and shot up and I got to talking to some of the these soldies.

And it made me question "Who is responsible for war?  Is it these guys?  You can't just point your finger at them - although they were there. 

Or maybe it's the generals who make a career of telling these guys what to do.

Or maybe that doesn't go far enough - I mean who tells the generals what to do?  Who points the generals in the army at somebody else.

Ahhh...It's the politicians!

But it had to go farther - who elects the politicians?

Ahh...IT'S US!

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 - IT'S ABOUT INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY."

LINK HERE TO HER AWESOME INTERVIEW AND PERFORMANCE...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWsGyNsw00

THE UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
 
He's five feet 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
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
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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
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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
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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
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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 the war
And without him all this killing can't go on
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He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame
But 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?
 
Songwriter: BUFFY SAINTE MARIE
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