Universal Soldier                                 
(Buffy St. Marie)                                 
                                                  
He's five foot two, and he's six foot 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.                   
                                                  
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, and Atheist, a Jain, A  
Buddhist, a Baptist, and a Jew. He knows he       
shouldn't kill, but he knows he always will,      
Kill you for me, my friend, and me for you.       
                                                  
He's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for       
France, He's fighting the U.S.A. He's fighting    
for the Russians, and he's fighting for Japan,    
And he thinks he'll put an end to war this way.   
                                                  
He's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for    
the Reds, He says it's peace for 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.   
                                                  
Without him how could Hitler have condemned them  
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 him and you and me and brothers    
can't you see, This is not the way to put an end  
to war.