How IRONIC! and the "HIDDEN PARASITES" are STILLl taking the WORLD to Their TOTALLY "ORCHESTRATED WARS!" When is the World going to "Wake-UP!" and understand that the ONLY WEAPON These PARASITES have in NOT being EXPOSED is... "ANTI SEMITIC" Claims! IT'S "TIME WORLD!" To come together as ONE "HUMAN-RACE" and "UNITE!" to now PUBLICLY EXPOSE THESE LYING DECEIVING "PARASITES" for what they have been doing to OUR PLANET and The HUMAN-RACE for CENTURIES! wake-upbeforeitstoolate(dot)com WORLD UNITE
SHE didn't write the song. Donovan wrote it, but that's irrelevant. For all the intellectual midgets I'll just break down what the song is saying.
DONOVAN IS SAYING IF NO ONE JOINS THE MILITARY That means nobody in any country ALL AROUND THE WORLD !!!! Then there wouldn't be ANY SOLDIERS
NO SOLDIERS MEANS NO ARMIES
NO ARMIES MEANS NO WAR.
That means the lunatics who send us to war would have to take up arms themselves. Could you imagine Obama picking up a gun and shooting at Ahmadinejad ? NO
@rutebeuf2 Thank you. Yes- Buffy Saint Marie, a Native American Indian. I believe she was the one who withheld the % of her income tax payment that went to finance the unlawful Vietnam police action. Threatened c/ jail for income tax evasion.And- BTW, JFK twist his attempted hits on Cuba's Castro, Bay of Pigs- stepped up its US "Peacekeepers". Ike started it- Kennedy was on same page. DNM.Thanx for the magic of your videos & the great comments they elicit.
What the hell are you talking about? Buffy is a Canadian First Nations Woman, born in Canada, lived in Canada long after Vietman was over. Stop talking out your ass.
@fannycraddock99 Not without you I can assure you, most people knew who wrote it, but didn't want to come across as a know all pillock like you, by the way, that was a cr@p show you had, must have been all the liquor
@TelecasterLPGTop Buffy Actually Wrote this song and Donovan sang it. She wrote it on her way back to Toronto when she was at an airport. She some soldiers who were wheeling injured to a flight and she began to think about why soldiers fight.
Lol, Not Donovan I'm afraid. This song and it's lyrics are 100% Carry the Ketle Buffy. Donovan sang and recorded it, but had nothing to do with it's origins.
Who conducted the "witch hunt" and who "boycotted" her?? I remeber when this song came out it got a lot of arrplay and she made many personal appearances. So i don't get what you're saying. You made it up???
She's saying "Just Say No" to fighting. They can put you in jail, but they can't make you kill someone. Also, if you're in the military, you don't have to follow unlawful orders.
As a vet myself this song convicts me and reminds me of how I was used by the US...but I made the decision to join and I will have to live with that. I have to look at myslef, i was young and mislead but it was on me to join and how I regret it, but how proud I am of my teenage sons who refuse to register for selective service..
Get real! Parents, at least good ones, are always proud of their children even if they don't follow their beliefs. My oldest is a Republican, makes in the high six digets, and my youngest is a pot smoking hippy that makes in the high five digets. One believes in war stuff, the other says the hell with war. So until you have children, have been to war as I have, try to respect the beliefs of others (sans vomit). I hate war, and as a disabled Nam Vet, I'll say "don't go!"
I was in line at a grocery store several days ago, when I couldn't help overhearing a conversation between several folks that hadn't seen each other for a while. One man asked a woman how her son was doing, and if he had pursued his interest in art after high school.
She told them all, in no uncertain terms, that her son, Robby, was in Iraq 'fighting the enemy'.
She went on to tell them how proud she was that he was "fighting for our freedoms".
@MichaelRMcCoy I know what you mean. you vomoting shows that you are much more then a corparate tool. I can't help but think how simple that woman is. wonder who she'll blame if her son comes back in a box. sorry if my comment upsets you but it is how I view it.
@OffyDoavy It takes courage to pick up a weapon and fight the enemies of your freedom in a foreign field. Any hippie hobo can pick up a guitar or a picket sign.
@skittlesandcart Yeah you're probably right, because liberals wormed their way into the military and turned it into a barney style cluster fuck. Other than that shut your suck because you speak about things you don't know.
In 1934 Atatürk wrote a tribute to the ANZACs killed at Gallipoli:
"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. ... you, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land. They have become our sons as well."
I hope this slut is burning in hell now, her name is unknown to people that matter. She thinks she is making a difference, Alexander made a difference, Caesar made a difference, Patton made a difference and all the men that marched under them not her. She will go to hell and burn forgotten forever, but the men who live with the blood and soul of Achilles those are the men who live and are remembered forever.
@EpicTrollBeastMan 1) She is not denying that Ceasar or any other made a difference, she questions the methods 2) Do you realise that the Trojan war began after a fight over a woman? So the people were a weapon for a twist between only two men. I won't deny Achilles' outstanding strength. But that war wasn't for the people.3) She does not mention being a difference herself, she sings about her feelings and asks us to think... no wrong with asking even if you don't agree.
@skittlesandcart No I'm a soldier, you're the fat liberal faggot pacifist son of a bitch that fears everything. You hate war because you don't understand it, you hate soldiers because you are jealous of those who have courage. Go smoke your pot you god damn hippie.
@skittlesandcart Then go live with the fucking muslims then if you have no faith in my country. I say shoot her because she sings songs about evil soldiers enabling war. It's not that damn simple, she is a coward for spitting on the men that lay their lives down in the name of freedom.
I don't think most soldiers share the same views as you, you realize if you lose the freedom to say what you want, offensive to others or not, then you lose freedom completely.
You want her to be shot because you don't like what she is saying, yet you fight for this country so people can keep these rights of freedom. It seems your the one who wants to run our country like the taliban!
@skittlesandcart I respect other's right to free speech, shit even lay my life down for it. I just think they should reciprocate the favor and not spit in the face of those who protect their freedoms.
everyone ALWAYS has a choice to kill or not to. to go to war or not to. to join the military or not be fooled by their money bribes. . i guess if you have no brains why would you care about killing anyone?? so take the risk of getting killed yourself i guess..
Rosmia2. It may be true that soldiers face imprisonment or execution, but I think Buffy's point is that it's still soldier's who must do the imprisoning and executing - it's that mentality of fear and justification that cascades through our cultural mores and creates the decision to kill made by each individual. Somewhere along the way each of us has a choice to accept that mentality, and it is deeply rooted in human nature. The universal soldier is, lamentably, a part of all us.
A great song by a beautiful lady. Part of the reason we got out of Vietnam was because our soldiers were refusing to fight. They were fragging officers and going to the brig rather than fight. I know because I saw them doing it. Buffy was right.
Imprisonment is nothing. I'd have gone to prison rather than fight in these two bullsh*t wars when I was enlisted. Execution, well, that's another matter, but those countries have plenty of other problems as well. I suppose you could say it's up to those of us who can put up with a bit of time in jail to start making the change towards a more civilized world.
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She never did get it. The Universal Soldier has mostly always gone to war because because if he didn't he would be imprisoned or, in many countries, executed. So, Buffie what's your answer to that babe?
she's saying that it's the governments of the countries that the people elect or that are forced upon the people that send the universal soldier to war, and yes, if they refused, would be imprisoned by these same governments.
No, she's saying it's the people that elect governments sending soldiers to war. People like you and me (being a soldier myself). This song hit the nail right on the head. Most people protesting against soldiers don't understand that it's themselves sending us to war. After all, we are not to reason why; we are but to do and die. We don't lose limbs, life or soul for some government, country or higher morale. We do it for the brother next to us. We do it for the people back home. Think about it.
@rutebeuf2 I respectfully disagree. She's saying war is everyone's fault and responsibility. "Him and you and me". Wars cannot be fought without soldiers, so if everyone refused to be a soldier there would be no war. Likewise, pacifists cannot be jailed or executed without people willing to do it. Blaming the gov't or politicians is passing the buck. It is each person's actions (or sometimes inaction) that legitimize war. Ending war requires everyone (or the vast majority anyway) to say "no".
@ibonyun I don't think they even listened to the words. You could understand it if they thought it was a bit anti-solder (even though for reasons you explained, it isn't). But they seemed to think soldiers are only on "our side". The very point she's making is that he's universal, i.e.: British, German, she even says Japanese and Russian.
@rosmia2 I don't think the message was for the soldiers. It is for the citizens who don't pay attention and accept things as they have been, without working for change. If it makes you recall that maybe the world could be better, she did get it. If it inspires you to argue that such a better world cannot be, then she wrote the song for you, because you have stopped dreaming of a better world for our own grandchildren, after centuries of our ancestors dreaming of one for us. A dream is the seed
@rosmia2 I don't think the message was for the soldiers. It is for the citizens who don't pay attention and accept things as they have been, without working for change. If it makes you recall that maybe the world could be better, she did get it. If it inspires you to argue that such a better world cannot be, then she wrote the song for you, because you have stopped dreaming of a better world for our own grandchildren, after centuries of our ancestors dreaming of one for us. A dream is the seed.
@rosmia2 I don't think the message was for the soldiers. It is for the citizens who don't pay attention and accept things as they have been, without working for change. If it makes you recall that maybe the world could be better, she did get it. If it inspires you to argue that such a better world cannot be, then she wrote the song for you, because you have stopped dreaming of a better world for our own grandchildren, after centuries of our ancestors dreaming of one for us. A dream is the seed.
@rosmia2 I don't think the message was for the soldiers. It is for the citizens who don't pay attention and accept things as they have been, without working for change.If it makes you recall that maybe the world could be better, she did get it. If it inspires you to argue that such a better world cannot be, then she wrote the song for you, because you have stopped dreaming of a better world for our own grandchildren, after centuries of our ancestors dreaming of one for us. A dream is the seed.
@rosmia2 the answer to that is that a person needs to quit saying they are "protecting us" but admit they are willing to kill others because he doesn't want to stand up for what's right and suffer the consequences of having a conscience.
@rosmia2 Since the War of 1812 and before, my ancestors and relatives have fought in the wars. One uncle who served in Korea came home twisted and in agony. He died alone back in the hills with the barrel of a 12-gauge shotgun in his mouth. I have also had uncles who refused to participate, who were then summarily sentenced to five years in prison. All were victims, and I find it difficult to blame any, but those who had the courage to defy the beast its 'due', to not cooperate, I respect more.
@rosmia2"It has been for some time a generally receiv’d Opinion, that a military Man is not to enquire whether a War be just or unjust; he is to execute his Orders. All Princes who are dispos’d to become Tyrants must probably approve of this Opinion, and be willing to establish it. But is it not a dangerous one? since, on that Principle, if the Tyrant commands his Army to attack and destroy, not only an unoffending Neighbor Nation, but even his own Subjects, the Army is bound to obey."-BFranklin
@rosmia2 And who does execute? The soldiers, right? If ALL of them said NO to the violence and refused to hold a gun, the government could do simply NOTHING.
@Sheo079 Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote this song in 1964. Buffy didn't get recognition for her song because she was on Pres. Nixons enemy list. Check history.
@Sheo079 - This lady (Buffy Sainte Marie) did write the song. She's a native American Indian and was born in 1942. She also wrote "Lift Us Up Where We Belong" and "Soldier Blue". Check her out on YT.
@Bookwormygirly Lucky you! Enjoy the show. But you should direct your corrective comments to Sheo079, the person who insisted that Donovan, not Buffy, wrote the song because " ... if you look at Live Vids of Donovan, you can see that Universal Soldier is at least 40 year old [sic]" I was subtly (perhaps too subtly?) pointing out to that person that Buffy was old enough to have written the song before those 40-year-old vids of Donovan.
@metzker7962 This GREAT DAME of literature wrote this song. She sold it for a pittance and later bought the rights to it back for a huge sum. She wrote it from her heart and never seriously considered the commercial value. It was the summary anthem of a generation.
This is without a doubt the most poignant and therefore most important song that was ever written. Some might say there may be a greater song written about love. I have never heard it and I believe I never will.
War is a Racket. I spent 33 years in military service... most of my time as a hi class muscleman for big business, for Wall Street & the bankers .... I was a gangster for capitalism.
Many have identified Donovan with this song, but the original is still the original; I never have listened to this version until now, but it's ranking immediately above D's cover!!!
Regarding indianapril and Khono's arguement, both of you should read a book each.
Indianapril, I suggest Dr. Nyizli's account of Auschwitz, you will see that Hitler allowed such inhumane things that go far beyond stealing land and attempted genocide.
And Khono, read Other Casualties, the Allies had hundreds of thousands of PoW and let the vast majority of them die, because they would simply not treat them well and allowed them to die. There're two sides to every story.
Peace is an ideal world but unfortunately whilst the world continues to argue and fight over politics, religeon, colour of skin and mostly MONEY the world will always have war and the unessearry deaths that occur
Thank You and you are right these things are going on today. In south american and in africa as well as the usa. Stoppin war is not the answer, beside we will never be able to stop war. There will always be good guys and bad guys.
What about the hundreds and thousands of people You killed just with blanks. Blanks that were infected with the small pocks virus. Thank You very much for killing the buffalo so you could starve us to death. So next time you are looking at your house on the lake and your BMW Remember the people that were killed so you could have it.
indianapril, indeed I believe you're correct that we are largely ignorant of the suffering we inflict and have inflicted upon so many. I NEVER hear mention of those who lost their lives/homes for us to live in such comfort, except when they were powerful (usually white). So many people celebrate Columbus yet have no idea that reliable sources say he was responsible for genocide on the order of tens of thousands or more. So many people bring up Hitler, but never mention the less popular.
So nest time You think of how bad Hitler was think how bad is was for us. Nest time You walk on Your land your or Wail your watch your TV. Think how many were killed so you could live there. How many mothers sisters fathers brothers aunts and uncle died so you could have it and put a wal-mart on the land. So death camps were bad you as gas champers were bad you say.
I am Native Choctaw. My people My tribe and may may may other tribes Died were KILLED THAT MY FRIENDS IS JUST AS BAD AS WHAT HITLER DID. You white people are so afraid to lose There america. What about the people that that you killed so you could have Your america. We has been fighting for so long. You think the fight is over. The fight is not over YOU people still are trying to take YOUR land. OOO God Some many were killed on 9/11 i say good. I am glad that you got to taste of how it felt
Wow, make your minds up USA. Is this song worth fighting for. Most of you sound like a bunch of whingers. UKok
k33fyk 1 month ago 2
this sounds like fucking shit, donovan who actually wrote the song sounds sooo much better
littlesmallworld123 1 month ago
@littlesmallworld123 lol, dickhead, she wrote it...
prettygrunt 1 month ago 2
@littlesmallworld123
Donovan never wrote this, you dopey twat
twinesplitter 1 week ago
@twinesplitter What a great song.That was when songs were good and said something.
Not just sex and stupid sh#t.Are we men or mice.Just mice since 1999.
searchlight18 1 week ago
no donevon is the best on this song
MrArnold104 1 month ago
How IRONIC! and the "HIDDEN PARASITES" are STILLl taking the WORLD to Their TOTALLY "ORCHESTRATED WARS!" When is the World going to "Wake-UP!" and understand that the ONLY WEAPON These PARASITES have in NOT being EXPOSED is... "ANTI SEMITIC" Claims! IT'S "TIME WORLD!" To come together as ONE "HUMAN-RACE" and "UNITE!" to now PUBLICLY EXPOSE THESE LYING DECEIVING "PARASITES" for what they have been doing to OUR PLANET and The HUMAN-RACE for CENTURIES! wake-upbeforeitstoolate(dot)com WORLD UNITE
einrib4truth 2 months ago
Thanks Dad for protecting this country-USA.For helping the helpless!
DThor53 2 months ago
Irgendwie kommt es mir so vor, als würde sie die Lippen ziemlich unsynchron bewegen.
Playback?
MacPic1 2 months ago
@MacPic1 nein, es ist nicht lipsynch, ist es mein Computer.
rutebeuf2 2 months ago
SHE didn't write the song. Donovan wrote it, but that's irrelevant. For all the intellectual midgets I'll just break down what the song is saying.
DONOVAN IS SAYING IF NO ONE JOINS THE MILITARY That means nobody in any country ALL AROUND THE WORLD !!!! Then there wouldn't be ANY SOLDIERS
NO SOLDIERS MEANS NO ARMIES
NO ARMIES MEANS NO WAR.
That means the lunatics who send us to war would have to take up arms themselves. Could you imagine Obama picking up a gun and shooting at Ahmadinejad ? NO
TelecasterLPGTop 2 months ago 5
@TelecasterLPGTop
no, Buffy wrote the song, it's well documented, and non refuted.
rutebeuf2 2 months ago 14
@rutebeuf2 This is a Buffy song......
sumduminjun 2 months ago
p.s. who are you to say what the song is about. did you write it? No! do you know the person who wrote it? No! so shut your pretentious mouth.
liammillard 2 months ago
@rutebeuf2 Thank you. Yes- Buffy Saint Marie, a Native American Indian. I believe she was the one who withheld the % of her income tax payment that went to finance the unlawful Vietnam police action. Threatened c/ jail for income tax evasion.And- BTW, JFK twist his attempted hits on Cuba's Castro, Bay of Pigs- stepped up its US "Peacekeepers". Ike started it- Kennedy was on same page. DNM.Thanx for the magic of your videos & the great comments they elicit.
foucault1020 3 weeks ago
@foucault1020
Buffy Sainte-Marie is a Canadian born in Quappelle, Sask. Piapot Reservation. NOT an American even though she now lives in Maui.
twinesplitter 1 week ago
@rutebeuf2
What the hell are you talking about? Buffy is a Canadian First Nations Woman, born in Canada, lived in Canada long after Vietman was over. Stop talking out your ass.
twinesplitter 1 week ago
@TelecasterLPGTop Buffy wrote the song NOT Donovan so please check your facts next time!
fannycraddock99 2 months ago
@TelecasterLPGTop My, what would we do without intellectual genuises like you ;-)
GEMINISTWIN1 2 months ago
@GEMINISTWIN1 Well you'd be totally lost :)
fannycraddock99 2 months ago
@fannycraddock99 Not without you I can assure you, most people knew who wrote it, but didn't want to come across as a know all pillock like you, by the way, that was a cr@p show you had, must have been all the liquor
;-D
GEMINISTWIN1 2 months ago
@fannycraddock99 Then I was found ;-D
GEMINISTWIN1 3 weeks ago
@TelecasterLPGTop Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote it, Donovan covered it.
GEMINISTWIN1 2 months ago
@TelecasterLPGTop no she was first
davedavito 2 months ago
@TelecasterLPGTop thank you oh great one for simplyfying it for us intellectually compromised.
animascat 2 months ago
@TelecasterLPGTop get a life, as a soldier, a medic saving lives of my brothers in arms (not the insurgents), grow up
961archie 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@TelecasterLPGTop
WOW,SOMEONE FINALLY GOT IT RIGHT.
FUCK WAR.
WILDHORSE466 1 month ago
@TelecasterLPGTop yes I could see obama doing that...
nooksak1 1 month ago
@TelecasterLPGTop Buffy Actually Wrote this song and Donovan sang it. She wrote it on her way back to Toronto when she was at an airport. She some soldiers who were wheeling injured to a flight and she began to think about why soldiers fight.
timothyclark1970 4 weeks ago
@TelecasterLPGTop
Donovan didn't write the song BSM did.
7igerby7he7ail 2 weeks ago
@TelecasterLPGTop Ever heard of conscription?
kencook1911 1 week ago
@TelecasterLPGTop
Lol, Not Donovan I'm afraid. This song and it's lyrics are 100% Carry the Ketle Buffy. Donovan sang and recorded it, but had nothing to do with it's origins.
twinesplitter 1 week ago
@TelecasterLPGTop or Bush.....
Anoint2 2 days ago
Oops ! it's out of synk. I will have to look for another version...
doUcare4music 3 months ago
She could have put the UK in there it's got a nice ryhm.
bazadata 3 months ago
Gotta cry. Wonderful <3
JulieLikesJuice 4 months ago
Universal............
dizzyloo 4 months ago
still amazing
Torontodavid644 5 months ago
Who conducted the "witch hunt" and who "boycotted" her?? I remeber when this song came out it got a lot of arrplay and she made many personal appearances. So i don't get what you're saying. You made it up???
hxo20292 6 months ago
Buffy sold the rights of the song for$1 and a witch hunt was instigated by the American Government against her, she was boycotted over it.
Its people like her that keep countries free from governments who want to shut you up.
galtyuk 6 months ago
@Enerjee - actually she's First Nation - Cree. Born in Canada - Saskatchewan. And I believe born in 1941 - she's 70 now.
Bookwormygirly 6 months ago
She's saying "Just Say No" to fighting. They can put you in jail, but they can't make you kill someone. Also, if you're in the military, you don't have to follow unlawful orders.
theoriginalbadbob 9 months ago
As a vet myself this song convicts me and reminds me of how I was used by the US...but I made the decision to join and I will have to live with that. I have to look at myslef, i was young and mislead but it was on me to join and how I regret it, but how proud I am of my teenage sons who refuse to register for selective service..
1macboo 10 months ago 2
Get real! Parents, at least good ones, are always proud of their children even if they don't follow their beliefs. My oldest is a Republican, makes in the high six digets, and my youngest is a pot smoking hippy that makes in the high five digets. One believes in war stuff, the other says the hell with war. So until you have children, have been to war as I have, try to respect the beliefs of others (sans vomit). I hate war, and as a disabled Nam Vet, I'll say "don't go!"
clearacres 10 months ago
I was in line at a grocery store several days ago, when I couldn't help overhearing a conversation between several folks that hadn't seen each other for a while. One man asked a woman how her son was doing, and if he had pursued his interest in art after high school.
She told them all, in no uncertain terms, that her son, Robby, was in Iraq 'fighting the enemy'.
She went on to tell them how proud she was that he was "fighting for our freedoms".
I abandoned my cart, and went outside to vomit.
MichaelRMcCoy 11 months ago
@MichaelRMcCoy I know what you mean. you vomoting shows that you are much more then a corparate tool. I can't help but think how simple that woman is. wonder who she'll blame if her son comes back in a box. sorry if my comment upsets you but it is how I view it.
MrKillien 10 months ago
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What a terrible video. She stinks.
fridgewrestler 11 months ago
It takes a very special courage to stand up to 'wrong' when it is screaming in your face . Especially when that wrong carries your own coffin.
OffyDoavy 1 year ago
@OffyDoavy It takes courage to pick up a weapon and fight the enemies of your freedom in a foreign field. Any hippie hobo can pick up a guitar or a picket sign.
EpicTrollBeastMan 11 months ago
@EpicTrollBeastMan
You should probably let your Sergeant know that you are racist, homophobic, and violent.
You need a good schooling in the Barracks, if you acted like this in the 'real' military, you'd get discharged for being mentally unstable.
I think they should send you to Egypt so you can get some perspective.
skittlesandcart 11 months ago
@skittlesandcart Yeah you're probably right, because liberals wormed their way into the military and turned it into a barney style cluster fuck. Other than that shut your suck because you speak about things you don't know.
EpicTrollBeastMan 11 months ago
@EpicTrollBeastMan
Lay off the Redbull!
skittlesandcart 11 months ago
Take the guitar strings and hanged
donzaukerr 1 year ago
In 1934 Atatürk wrote a tribute to the ANZACs killed at Gallipoli:
"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. ... you, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land. They have become our sons as well."
jrwjrw88 1 year ago
I hope this slut is burning in hell now, her name is unknown to people that matter. She thinks she is making a difference, Alexander made a difference, Caesar made a difference, Patton made a difference and all the men that marched under them not her. She will go to hell and burn forgotten forever, but the men who live with the blood and soul of Achilles those are the men who live and are remembered forever.
EpicTrollBeastMan 1 year ago
@EpicTrollBeastMan you just made a fool of yourself.
MickyyisMick 1 year ago 2
@MickyyisMick I made a fool of your mother in bed last night you hippie faggot. You weak excuse for a human.
EpicTrollBeastMan 1 year ago
@EpicTrollBeastMan 1) She is not denying that Ceasar or any other made a difference, she questions the methods 2) Do you realise that the Trojan war began after a fight over a woman? So the people were a weapon for a twist between only two men. I won't deny Achilles' outstanding strength. But that war wasn't for the people.3) She does not mention being a difference herself, she sings about her feelings and asks us to think... no wrong with asking even if you don't agree.
boterhampate 1 year ago
@boterhampate I think she should be shot.
EpicTrollBeastMan 1 year ago
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boterhampate 1 year ago
@EpicTrollBeastMan
Because your a fat redneck.
skittlesandcart 11 months ago
@skittlesandcart No I'm a soldier, you're the fat liberal faggot pacifist son of a bitch that fears everything. You hate war because you don't understand it, you hate soldiers because you are jealous of those who have courage. Go smoke your pot you god damn hippie.
EpicTrollBeastMan 11 months ago
@EpicTrollBeastMan I don't hate war, I don't like folks who come on to comment boards like 'shoot her' without any backing on their opinions.
I have even less faith in this country if your the one defending it.
skittlesandcart 11 months ago
@skittlesandcart Then go live with the fucking muslims then if you have no faith in my country. I say shoot her because she sings songs about evil soldiers enabling war. It's not that damn simple, she is a coward for spitting on the men that lay their lives down in the name of freedom.
EpicTrollBeastMan 11 months ago
@EpicTrollBeastMan
I don't think most soldiers share the same views as you, you realize if you lose the freedom to say what you want, offensive to others or not, then you lose freedom completely.
You want her to be shot because you don't like what she is saying, yet you fight for this country so people can keep these rights of freedom. It seems your the one who wants to run our country like the taliban!
skittlesandcart 11 months ago 3
@skittlesandcart I respect other's right to free speech, shit even lay my life down for it. I just think they should reciprocate the favor and not spit in the face of those who protect their freedoms.
EpicTrollBeastMan 11 months ago
@EpicTrollBeastMan
Fair enough.
skittlesandcart 11 months ago
Why is it that Canada has a day of remembrance to horning these glorified murders?
MyHealingSoul 1 year ago
I cried all the way through this song, this should be played to all the world leaders, especially that war monger Tony BLAIR.
blackpool321 1 year ago
It's a fabulous song sung very well but I personally prefer the Donavan version.
MACHAWK123 1 year ago
donovan did it, the yanks always claim they DID IT, we defend they attak and leave us to wipe up...
splez4 1 year ago
This song is soo biutiful!! and it is soo classical it is relaxing mee al the time
xtonator 1 year ago
everyone ALWAYS has a choice to kill or not to. to go to war or not to. to join the military or not be fooled by their money bribes. . i guess if you have no brains why would you care about killing anyone?? so take the risk of getting killed yourself i guess..
weirdfetishes5 1 year ago
Wooo..she´s sooo beaut !
Hemulen40 1 year ago
glad she was still singing in 1996. We are all getting older.
ZZBob777 1 year ago
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Rosmia2. It may be true that soldiers face imprisonment or execution, but I think Buffy's point is that it's still soldier's who must do the imprisoning and executing - it's that mentality of fear and justification that cascades through our cultural mores and creates the decision to kill made by each individual. Somewhere along the way each of us has a choice to accept that mentality, and it is deeply rooted in human nature. The universal soldier is, lamentably, a part of all us.
hughtrenchard 1 year ago
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hughtrenchard 1 year ago
if i lived in the u s a ,i would not buy anthing from vietnam ,ever,
MrScothern1 1 year ago
A great song by a beautiful lady. Part of the reason we got out of Vietnam was because our soldiers were refusing to fight. They were fragging officers and going to the brig rather than fight. I know because I saw them doing it. Buffy was right.
bluesapphire48 1 year ago
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@bluesapphire48 go fuck yourself u piece of shit
slugsung88 1 year ago
Imprisonment is nothing. I'd have gone to prison rather than fight in these two bullsh*t wars when I was enlisted. Execution, well, that's another matter, but those countries have plenty of other problems as well. I suppose you could say it's up to those of us who can put up with a bit of time in jail to start making the change towards a more civilized world.
DJSkyede 1 year ago
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She never did get it. The Universal Soldier has mostly always gone to war because because if he didn't he would be imprisoned or, in many countries, executed. So, Buffie what's your answer to that babe?
rosmia2 1 year ago
@rosmia2
she's saying that it's the governments of the countries that the people elect or that are forced upon the people that send the universal soldier to war, and yes, if they refused, would be imprisoned by these same governments.
rutebeuf2 1 year ago 15
No, she's saying it's the people that elect governments sending soldiers to war. People like you and me (being a soldier myself). This song hit the nail right on the head. Most people protesting against soldiers don't understand that it's themselves sending us to war. After all, we are not to reason why; we are but to do and die. We don't lose limbs, life or soul for some government, country or higher morale. We do it for the brother next to us. We do it for the people back home. Think about it.
Sarendil 1 year ago 7
@Sarendil : Well said, Sarendil.
ZadZadrack 1 month ago
@rutebeuf2 I respectfully disagree. She's saying war is everyone's fault and responsibility. "Him and you and me". Wars cannot be fought without soldiers, so if everyone refused to be a soldier there would be no war. Likewise, pacifists cannot be jailed or executed without people willing to do it. Blaming the gov't or politicians is passing the buck. It is each person's actions (or sometimes inaction) that legitimize war. Ending war requires everyone (or the vast majority anyway) to say "no".
ibonyun 8 months ago
What would happen if they threw a war but nobody came?
ibonyun 8 months ago
@ibonyun Great answer. Says it all.
A perfect response to the legions of brainwashed automatons who cry "Without him we'd all be speaking German/Japanese!"
Camerameister 7 months ago
@Camerameister thanks. i wonder if those automatons ever wonder why they're speaking english.
ibonyun 7 months ago
@ibonyun I don't think they even listened to the words. You could understand it if they thought it was a bit anti-solder (even though for reasons you explained, it isn't). But they seemed to think soldiers are only on "our side". The very point she's making is that he's universal, i.e.: British, German, she even says Japanese and Russian.
Camerameister 7 months ago
@rosmia2
She is not blaming, but rather calls his sense of resonsibility.
BTW:
If the other soldiers do not arrest or kill those who ask to execute or imprison the one that did not obey to go to war it makes perfect sense.
I however agree that this is a quite naive idea, but a peaceful one.
We all know that it never works, but we wish it would.
Like "imagine" by John Lennon.
It is a daydream, not a realistic vision.
schusterlehrling 1 year ago
@rosmia2 I don't think the message was for the soldiers. It is for the citizens who don't pay attention and accept things as they have been, without working for change. If it makes you recall that maybe the world could be better, she did get it. If it inspires you to argue that such a better world cannot be, then she wrote the song for you, because you have stopped dreaming of a better world for our own grandchildren, after centuries of our ancestors dreaming of one for us. A dream is the seed
Twisterjoe 1 year ago
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@rosmia2 I don't think the message was for the soldiers. It is for the citizens who don't pay attention and accept things as they have been, without working for change. If it makes you recall that maybe the world could be better, she did get it. If it inspires you to argue that such a better world cannot be, then she wrote the song for you, because you have stopped dreaming of a better world for our own grandchildren, after centuries of our ancestors dreaming of one for us. A dream is the seed.
Twisterjoe 1 year ago
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@rosmia2 I don't think the message was for the soldiers. It is for the citizens who don't pay attention and accept things as they have been, without working for change. If it makes you recall that maybe the world could be better, she did get it. If it inspires you to argue that such a better world cannot be, then she wrote the song for you, because you have stopped dreaming of a better world for our own grandchildren, after centuries of our ancestors dreaming of one for us. A dream is the seed.
Twisterjoe 1 year ago
@rosmia2 I don't think the message was for the soldiers. It is for the citizens who don't pay attention and accept things as they have been, without working for change.If it makes you recall that maybe the world could be better, she did get it. If it inspires you to argue that such a better world cannot be, then she wrote the song for you, because you have stopped dreaming of a better world for our own grandchildren, after centuries of our ancestors dreaming of one for us. A dream is the seed.
Twisterjoe 1 year ago
@rosmia2 the answer to that is that a person needs to quit saying they are "protecting us" but admit they are willing to kill others because he doesn't want to stand up for what's right and suffer the consequences of having a conscience.
Spiritflier07 1 year ago
@rosmia2 Since the War of 1812 and before, my ancestors and relatives have fought in the wars. One uncle who served in Korea came home twisted and in agony. He died alone back in the hills with the barrel of a 12-gauge shotgun in his mouth. I have also had uncles who refused to participate, who were then summarily sentenced to five years in prison. All were victims, and I find it difficult to blame any, but those who had the courage to defy the beast its 'due', to not cooperate, I respect more.
7863547 1 year ago
@rosmia2"It has been for some time a generally receiv’d Opinion, that a military Man is not to enquire whether a War be just or unjust; he is to execute his Orders. All Princes who are dispos’d to become Tyrants must probably approve of this Opinion, and be willing to establish it. But is it not a dangerous one? since, on that Principle, if the Tyrant commands his Army to attack and destroy, not only an unoffending Neighbor Nation, but even his own Subjects, the Army is bound to obey."-BFranklin
7863547 1 year ago
@rosmia2 And who does execute? The soldiers, right? If ALL of them said NO to the violence and refused to hold a gun, the government could do simply NOTHING.
aLady4AK 1 year ago
@rosmia2 well she says "his orders come from far away no more" - that means NOW he is NO LONGER forced to go to war. that's what i understood.
bombitza 7 months ago
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razz187 6 months ago
@rosmia2 well who wud detain them? who wud execute them? another universal soldier
razz187 6 months ago
the audio is not synchronized with mouth or moving picture;regardless a terrific video!!! love it!
bingbong35 1 year ago
bravo belle chanson bien interprétée, belle voix à réentendre souvent
TheBERTRANDDJ 1 year ago
FANTASTIC SONG WITH NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH....GLEN CAMPBELL'S VERSION IS THE BEST....
MALTOMEEGE 1 year ago
get that voice and what a song
girlznguitarz 1 year ago
poignant ... powerful
spiritshy 1 year ago
So who wrote this song anyway? Donovan or this lady?
metzker7962 2 years ago
Buffy (this lady) wrote it.
rutebeuf2 2 years ago 23
@rutebeuf2
i dont believe this lady wrote it...if you look at Live Vids of Donovan, you can see that Universal Soldier is at least 40 year old.
Sheo079 9 months ago
@Sheo079 Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote this song in 1964. Buffy didn't get recognition for her song because she was on Pres. Nixons enemy list. Check history.
204moneychic 8 months ago
@Sheo079 - This lady (Buffy Sainte Marie) did write the song. She's a native American Indian and was born in 1942. She also wrote "Lift Us Up Where We Belong" and "Soldier Blue". Check her out on YT.
Enerjee 7 months ago
@Sheo079 Buffy is at least 40 years old ... and then some!
Seasass 7 months ago
@Seasass Um, Buffy is 70 this year dude. ANd yes, she's still performing. I hope to see her soon live.
Bookwormygirly 6 months ago
@Bookwormygirly Lucky you! Enjoy the show. But you should direct your corrective comments to Sheo079, the person who insisted that Donovan, not Buffy, wrote the song because " ... if you look at Live Vids of Donovan, you can see that Universal Soldier is at least 40 year old [sic]" I was subtly (perhaps too subtly?) pointing out to that person that Buffy was old enough to have written the song before those 40-year-old vids of Donovan.
Seasass 6 months ago
@metzker7962 This GREAT DAME of literature wrote this song. She sold it for a pittance and later bought the rights to it back for a huge sum. She wrote it from her heart and never seriously considered the commercial value. It was the summary anthem of a generation.
landslave 1 year ago
This is without a doubt the most poignant and therefore most important song that was ever written. Some might say there may be a greater song written about love. I have never heard it and I believe I never will.
simonjdiamond 2 years ago 4
You are one of my favorite songwriters in the world! Tehema, Yolo, Yakima
Bb
HEADSUPBERKELEY 2 years ago 3
Shipping off to the army on monday. 11.01.2010.
Conscription army is a bummer.
Good song. I agree. Though I'll be firing a rifle in 4 weeks.
zebelih 2 years ago
@zebelih good luck and remember don;t do what Dempsey did "He forgot to duck"
slowpokecat 2 years ago
Classic song :)
edgeyp12 2 years ago
Can anyone not be touched from this song from her?
Me not.
Me never.
I am from germany.
But I can hear her.
She touched me deep inside.
Same with R.Mirabal and J.Shenandoah.
flyArea52 2 years ago 18
I CAN...
tamiagirl9 1 year ago
@flyArea52 i love shenandoah!! she has such "peace and power" try joy harjo too
PimpMyParadigm 1 year ago
@flyArea52 go fuck yourself
slugsung88 1 year ago
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why put up a shitty fucking video completely off track?
tooclassy4most 2 years ago
I AGREE
tamiagirl9 1 year ago
Lucky me saw her live this summer, talked a few words with her after the consert too... I'm just praying it will not be the last time, Buffy!
geirspammesen 2 years ago
It's awesome, beautiful, Buffy Sainte-Marie is truly talented. That's lagging, not lip synching.
MissPurpleMoon1 2 years ago 11
She sounds as wonderful today as she did many years ago... no help from any technology. As beautiful as ever.
TheHonda550 2 years ago 3
is it lagging? or is she lip sycing?
7az1 2 years ago 3
sorry, it's the upload, it's perfectly insync from TV, but my comuter i guess video/audio card isn't up to snuff. it's not lip synched. thanks
rutebeuf2 2 years ago 6
@rutebeuf2 i thought it was a japenese thing from the early 60's
libsemik 1 year ago
how can anyone lip sync that bad? :))
it's lagging.
tiby2403 2 years ago 5
I just hard her live in concert- she is not lip-syncing, She is as wonderful today as she was forty-five years ago.
TheHonda550 2 years ago 2
@7az1
Lagging, of course.
mussman717word 1 year ago
War is a Racket. I spent 33 years in military service... most of my time as a hi class muscleman for big business, for Wall Street & the bankers .... I was a gangster for capitalism.
Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC
Stop the Afghan war.
Kangas 4 Congress. Youtube: paul8kangas
paul8kangas 2 years ago 2
Twitter #Thankyouaaron
fruglescot 2 years ago
Glen Cambells version was actually higher on the charts than Donovan...
rde999ge 2 years ago
Donovan 'covered' a lot of people, ho, ho, ho...
macmaghnusa 2 years ago
classic donavan
gratefulghost 2 years ago
NO classic Buffy Sainte-Marie Donavan may have covered but it wasn't his fight and she is a fantastic writer
maz403 2 years ago 5
agreed on every point
gratefulghost 2 years ago
Ask not what's inside men that makes them kill and burn.....ask what surrounds them
Jay3039 2 years ago 3
That's a great quote. Is it original? I might like to borrow that! If not orig., can you site the author?
Thanks!
Ermengarde11 2 years ago
yah its original.........use however much you'd like.....might be nice in a song
Jay3039 2 years ago
Thanks! I'm adding it to my list of quotes that I find profound. I just might consider putting it into a lyric!
Ermengarde11 2 years ago
It's probably been said before. Something along these lines must have been uttered before.
slickon 2 years ago
Genocide World Wide.
And society is brainwashed.
They hug their TV, love Big Brother.
The news is an exciting story for the tv zombies.
gridlocksystem 2 years ago
Greed.. greed.. greed..thats the basis of
war.. man is greedy and allways will be..
and when they have everything.. they want
more.. so it goes on..
Tibetans are the only race of purity.. love &
peace.. they own a robe & a bowl.. and they are happy in there lives!
Remember that!
kingdom777866 2 years ago
condemn the soldier all u want but its the dogs teeth that keeps the wolf at bay you sheep
danpit2001 2 years ago
beauitful
ReneDHilton 2 years ago 2
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thelittlerobot45 2 years ago
Many have identified Donovan with this song, but the original is still the original; I never have listened to this version until now, but it's ranking immediately above D's cover!!!
canada2love 2 years ago
I thinks Donovans cover is better.
But, she still wrote the song so credit to her.
HooHeeHaHa 2 years ago
Peace is easy.
We don't need a paradise to establish peace.
We just have to convince those who think peace can NEVER be established.
They spoil all efforts and the tragic is they don't see their failure and always blame others to do them wrong.
Peace is easy, but only if YOU keep it.
Remember that.
schusterlehrling 2 years ago 2
The only peace that can be acheived is the end of this world and the beginning of Paradise on earth.
noff27 3 years ago
Regarding indianapril and Khono's arguement, both of you should read a book each.
Indianapril, I suggest Dr. Nyizli's account of Auschwitz, you will see that Hitler allowed such inhumane things that go far beyond stealing land and attempted genocide.
And Khono, read Other Casualties, the Allies had hundreds of thousands of PoW and let the vast majority of them die, because they would simply not treat them well and allowed them to die. There're two sides to every story.
jordan8199 3 years ago
I must say, I like the Donovan version better.
jordan8199 3 years ago
I have a question for all here-Why the hell are we in Iraq?I mean,what's the point?
wrappindude 3 years ago 5
Oil. Isn't it (sadly) obvious.
jordan8199 3 years ago
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InformedChoice 3 years ago
you're pathetic.
seantheiverson 2 years ago
I love Buffy St. Marie
awdemers 3 years ago 3
er bit of a problem with voice video syc - aside of all the other rhetoric
kayjay83 3 years ago
Families cannot live in peace so what chance the nations of the world.!!
bobgladstone 3 years ago
Of course Families can live in peace. Its your choice.
jcatt500 3 years ago
Yes, well said. Peace begins within ourselves - each and every one of us. If we cannot find peace within, we cannot radiate peace without and beyond.
kwassagirl 3 years ago
Peace is an ideal world but unfortunately whilst the world continues to argue and fight over politics, religeon, colour of skin and mostly MONEY the world will always have war and the unessearry deaths that occur
bobgladstone 3 years ago
Thank You and you are right these things are going on today. In south american and in africa as well as the usa. Stoppin war is not the answer, beside we will never be able to stop war. There will always be good guys and bad guys.
indianapril 3 years ago
What about the hundreds and thousands of people You killed just with blanks. Blanks that were infected with the small pocks virus. Thank You very much for killing the buffalo so you could starve us to death. So next time you are looking at your house on the lake and your BMW Remember the people that were killed so you could have it.
indianapril 3 years ago
indianapril, indeed I believe you're correct that we are largely ignorant of the suffering we inflict and have inflicted upon so many. I NEVER hear mention of those who lost their lives/homes for us to live in such comfort, except when they were powerful (usually white). So many people celebrate Columbus yet have no idea that reliable sources say he was responsible for genocide on the order of tens of thousands or more. So many people bring up Hitler, but never mention the less popular.
Khono 3 years ago
So nest time You think of how bad Hitler was think how bad is was for us. Nest time You walk on Your land your or Wail your watch your TV. Think how many were killed so you could live there. How many mothers sisters fathers brothers aunts and uncle died so you could have it and put a wal-mart on the land. So death camps were bad you as gas champers were bad you say.
indianapril 3 years ago
I am Native Choctaw. My people My tribe and may may may other tribes Died were KILLED THAT MY FRIENDS IS JUST AS BAD AS WHAT HITLER DID. You white people are so afraid to lose There america. What about the people that that you killed so you could have Your america. We has been fighting for so long. You think the fight is over. The fight is not over YOU people still are trying to take YOUR land. OOO God Some many were killed on 9/11 i say good. I am glad that you got to taste of how it felt
indianapril 3 years ago
The last pa