Buffy Sainte-Marie - The Universal Soldier lyrics

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 k** And he knows he always will k** 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 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 the war And without him all this k**ing can't go on 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?