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The Universal Soldier [EP]

Donovan

1965

jaar
Top 40

piekpositie
Top 40

weken
Top 40

280

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Top 40

Donovan

Artiest

Donovan

Titel A-kant

Universal Soldier / The Balld Of A crystal Man

Lengte A-kant

02:12

Componist(en) A-kant

Buffy, St. Marie / Donovan

Producer(s) A-kant

Eden Stephens, Terry Kennedy

Titel B-kant

Do You Hear Me Now / The War Drags On

Componist(en) B-kant

Bert Jansch / Mick Softley

Producer(s) B-kant

Eden Stephens, Terry Kennedy

Platenlabel

Pye

Catalogusnr

NEP 24219

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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 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