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Track: Universal Soldier
Artist: Donovan
Album: Fairytale (Deluxe Expanded Edition)

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Name: Donovan
Spotify Genres: folk rock, psychedelic rock
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Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist, born May 10, 1946 in Glasgow. Donovan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014. Stepfather of Brian Jones' and Linda Lawrence's son, [a=Julian Jones], also known as Julian Brian (Jones) Leitch. [b]For any credits containing a variation of Donovan’s surname “Leitch” please use [a=Donovan Phillips Leitch]. Not to be confused with his son [a=Donovan Leitch].[/b]

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Release: Donovan - Universal Soldier
Year: 1967
Genres: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Styles: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock

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LYRICS

He is five foot two,
anbd he's six feet four,
he fights with missiles and with spears,
he is all of thirty-one,
and he's only a seventeen,
's been a soldier for thousands years.

He's a Catolic, a Hindy,
an atheist, A Chein,
A Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew,
and he knows, he shouldn't kill,
and he knows, he always will,
care for me, my friend, and I will care 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 Russains,
he's fihgting for Japan,
and he thinks we put an end to war this way.

And he's fighting for democrazy,
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 wall.

And without him, how would Hitler
kill the people at Dachau,
without him Cesar would have stood alone,
he's the one, who gives his body
as a weapon of the war,
and without him always killing cant gho on.

He's the universal soldier,
and he really is to blame,
his orders came from far away, no more,
they came from here and there,
and you and me ain't brothers,
can't you see,
this is not the way we put an end to war.