Universal Soldier Lyrics

Universal Soldier lyrics

(Written by Buffy St. Marie)

 (As recorded by Glen Campbell - 1965)

 

 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 

 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 

 He knows he shouldn't kill 

 But he knows he always will 

 Kill you, my friend, for me and me for you 

 

 He's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France 

 He's fighting for the USA 

 He's fighting for the Russians 

 And he's fighting for Japan 

 And he thinks he'll put an end to war that way 

 

 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 

 But he never sees the writing on the wall 

 

 But without him how would Hitler have condemned them at Dachau

 Without him Caesar would have stood alone

 He's the one who gives his body

 As the 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 brother, can't you see 

 This is not the way to put an end to war