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