Tag 722 (Tag 18 des Kriegs) und Buffy St. Marie: The Universal Soldier

Freundin L. ist auf dem Weg in die Ukraine. Sie hält es hier in Deutschland nicht mehr aus. Nach Kiew hinein wird sie wohl kommen, aber nicht wieder so heraus, wie sie sich das vorstellt: Schwester, Mutter, Nachbarinnen will sie retten. In einer Stunde ist sie in Lwiv. H. wird berichten.

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Bekannt wurde dieses Lied durch den jungen Donovan.

Komponiert wurde es von Buffy Sainte-Marie. H. liebt besonders ihr Lied "Now That the Buffalo's Gone". Das passt auch zum Krieg, zum Ausrotten.

Now That The Buffao`s Gone

 

Can you remember the times
That you have held your head high
And told all your friends of your Indian claim
Proud good lady and proud good man
Some great-great-grandfather from Indian blood sprang

 
And you feel in your heart for these ones

Oh, it's written in books and in songs
That we've been mistreated and wronged
Well over and over I hear those same words
From you good lady and you good man
Well listen to me if you care where we stand

 
And you feel you're a part of these ones

When a war between nations is lost
The loser, we know, pays the cost
But even when Germany fell to your hands
Consider dear lady, consider dear man
You left them their pride and you left them their lands

 
And what have you done to these ones

Has a change come about my dear man
Or are you still taking our lands
A treaty forever your senators sign
They do dear lady, they do dear man
And the treaties are broken again and again

 
And what will you do for these ones

"Oh, it's all in the past, " they will say
But it's still going on here today
The governments now want the Navajo land
That of the Inuit and the Cheyenne
It's here and it's now you can help us dear man
Now that the buffalo's gone

Hier die große Dame mit ihrem Antikriegslied.

The Universal Soldier - Buffy Sainte Marie

 

He's five feet two and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of 31 and he's only 17
He's been a soldier for a thousand years

 

He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an athiest, a Jain,
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
and he knows he shouldn't kill
and he knows he always will
kill you for me my friend and me 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 Russians
and he's fighting for Japan,
and he thinks we'll put an end to war this way

 

And he's fighting for Democracy
and 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 walls

 

But without him how would Hitler have
condemned him at Dachau
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He's the one who gives his body
as a weapon to a war
and without him all this killing can't go on

 

He's the universal soldier and he
really is to blame
His orders come from far away no more
They come from him, and you, and me
and brothers can't you see
this is not the way we put an end to war