Buffy St.Marie and Pete Seeger video

[charlene]

http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2008/1...uffy_sain.html

also video:

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
Buffy Sainte-Marie
© Caleb Music-ASCAP

I wrote "Universal Soldier" in the basement of The Purple Onion coffee house in Toronto in the early sixties. It's about individual responsibility for war and how the old feudal thinking kills us all. Donovan had a hit with it in 1965.

He's five feet two and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of 31 and he's only 17
He's been a soldier for a thousand years

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

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
and 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 walls

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 a 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 we put an end to war.

[BILLW]

Well I love Buffy, and I have more than one version of that song on my iPod. I guess you could call me an eclecticist (real word).

Bill

[timetraveler]

Speaking of Pete Seegar, I saw a documentary piece on The Smothers Brothers & was surprised to find that they were what some called trouble makers, of sorts, in that they picked at the establishment of their time, as well as protesting the Vietnam War. One of the guests that they had on their show at one time was Mr. Seegar, performing a song called Big Muddy, and it had one line edited because the censors at the time thought it was being rude & disrespectful towards then President Johnson. Oh well. What did I know back then? I was only 7 or 8 at the time & I thought they were fabulous musicians & comedians(Smothers Brothers). Mr. Seegar was damn good then too.

[Patti]

Those 3 videos were good to see. Thanks for the link, Char. I had just heard Universal Soldier a few days ago on tv. Hadn't heard it in a while. I think it was on freespeech tv. I love her music.

She's an amazing talent and I've always loved her voice . I had never heard "Universal Soldier" before and can't say that I particularly care for it.

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