The Universal Soldier
Buffy Sainte-Marie
[Verse 1]
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

[Verse 2]
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

[Verse 3]
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

[Verse 4]
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
[Verse 5]
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

[Verse 6]
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?
Write the lyrics for a rock song made in 1964, titled "The Universal Soldier", by artist "Buffy Sainte-Marie".