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Track: Soldier Blue
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Album: She Used To Wanna Be A Ballerina

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Name: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Spotify Genres: native american music, folk rock, folk
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Singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, pacifist, educator, social activist, and philanthropist, born February 20, 1941 in Stoneham, Mass. At times she has self-identified as Cree and stated she was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, to an indigenous family, but averred that her Canadian birth certificate from back then was lost or destroyed. She came under fire in late 2023 for allegedly manufacturing this indigenous background and hiding her Massachusetts birth to white parents of Italian ancestry, according to a CBC documentary that found her original 1941 U.S. birth certificate. Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada appointment was terminated by an ordinance signed by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon on January 3, 2025; no reason was given for the termination. She came up in the Greenwich Village scene in New York in the 1960s and her music has generally been categorized as folk and traditional music (although she did record one mostly-country album in Nashville: "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again".) She won an Oscar in the mid-1980s for co-writing the hit "Up Where We Belong" for the "Officer And A Gentleman" film soundtrack.

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Release: Buffy Sainte-Marie - Soldier Blue
Year: 1971
Genres: Stage & Screen
Styles: Soundtrack, Theme

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I'll tell you a story and it's a true one Ans I'll tell it like you understand And I ain't gonna talk like some history maid I look out and I see a land Young and lovely Hard and strong For fifty thousand years we've danced her praises Prayed our thanks and we've just begun Yes, yes Yes, this is my country Young and growing Free and flowing See to see Yes, this is my country Ripe and bearing miracles In every pond and tree Her spirit walks the high country She's giving free wild samples And setting an example how to give Yes, this is my country Retching and turning She's like a baby learning how to live I can stand upon a hill at dawn Look all around me Feel her surround me Soldier Blue Can't you see her live has just begun Beating inside us Telling us she's here to guide us Soldier Blue, Soldier Blue, Soldier Blue Can't you see that there's another way to love her This is my country And I sprang from her And I'm learning how to take count upon her Tall trees and the corn is high country I guess I love her And I'm learning how to take care of her When the new stories get me down I take a drink of freedom to think of North America from toe to crown It's never long before I know just why I belong here Soldier Blue, Soldier Blue, Soldier Blue Can't you see that there's another way to love her