Buffy Sainte-Marie - Universal Soldier

Buffy first narrates on how she wrote, then sings Universal Soldier

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[toby blake]

I heard Donovan do this as a pre-Vietnam youth, about 16, then I went off to that war, and now I listen to Buffy sing it and it feels like she's singing it right to me now. The song never stops happening because there's always a war somewhere.

I say, "If the mind is a vast universe, think of the heavens lost in war."

[andrew tungsk]

For me CERTAINLY THE MOST MEANINGFUL SONG FOR ALL OF MY TIMES.....andrewtungsk

[Bjørnar Pedersen]

She start to sing at 1:45

[ThisIsMrNeil]

God, my ears hurt. She destroys her own song here. Absolutely awful.

[madmistermike]

watch this video and wonder why ?? fight ??

fighting for peace is like f ing for virginity

war equals money @ money equals war

big brother takes from little brother

big fish eats little fish

only the strong survive

laws of nature

the animal side of man

we are all born different

and taught to be the same

[Ryhela]

Exactly. However the war machine works on the basis that there are always willing volunteers - patriotism or starvation take your pick. You don't see the sons of government officials in the armed officials anymore. To be fair, in the past long ago, a few (very few) sons and daughters did serve. .

[Jon Doe]

I see your point, but it's nearly hopeless. If we don't fight, then who's to say the other side wont either. However I thought the Christmas cease fire in WWI was incredible.

[David Gatson]

Like; What if war was declared, and nobody showed up?

[David Gatson]

You always have a choice

[David Gatson]

No one has the power to say NO, really?



[Anders Heiß]

Phantastic and true...

[Macangusagain]

without a doubt,the most amazing miss Buffy Sainte-Marie,and without a shred of a doubt,one of the greatest anti-war songs ever written. If she never did another thing,that one song made her one of the great cultural icons of our time