He's five foot two
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and he's six feet four,
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he fights with missiles and with spears.
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He's all of thirty-one
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and he's only seventeen,
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He's been a soldier through a thousand years.
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He's a Catholic, a Hindu,
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an atheist, a Jain,
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a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew.
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And he knows he shouldn't kill
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and he knows he always will
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kill you for me my friend and me for you.
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And he's fighting for Canada,
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he's fighting for France,
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he's fighting for the USA.
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And he's fighting for the Russians
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and he's fighting for Japan,
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and he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.
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And he's fighting for democracy,
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he's fighting for the Reds,
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he says it's for the peace of all.
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He's the one who must decide,
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who's to live and who's to die,
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and he never sees the writing on the wall.
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But without him, how would Hitler
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have condemned him at Dachau,
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(note: There was a concentration camp, in german KZ, in 1945 )
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without him Caesar would have stood alone.
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He's the one who gives his body
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as a weapon of the war,
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and without him all this killing can't go on.
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He's the universal soldier,
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and he really is to blame,
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his orders come from far away, no more.
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They come from here and there and you and me
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and brothers can't you see,
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this is not the way we put the end to war.
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Universal Soldier
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Donovan Leitch |