The song Universal Soldier is performed by Donovan in the album named Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964-1976 in the year 1996 .
He's five foot two and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen
Been a soldier for a thousand years
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, 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 U.S.A.
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, 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
But without him
How would Hitler have condemned him at Labau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the 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 here and there and you and me
And brothers can't you see
This is not the way we put the end to war
Donovan - Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964-1976
- London Town
- Codine
- Catch The Wind
- Universal Soldier
- Colours
- Sunshine Superman
- Season Of The Witch
- The Trip
- Guinevere
- Breezes Of Patchulie
- Museum
- Super Lungs
- Mellow Yellow
- Writer In The Sun
- Sand And Foam
- Sunny South Kensington
- Epistle To Dippy
- There Is A Mountain
- Wear Your Love Like Heaven
- Oh Gosh
- The Tinker And The Crab
- Poor Cow
- Hurdy Gurdy Man
- Jennifer Juniper
- Teen Angel
- Lalena
- To Susan On The West Coast Waiting
- Atlantis
- Barabajagal
- Happiness Runs
- Celia Of The Seals
- Riki Tiki Tavi
- Clara Clairvoyant
- Roots Of Oak
- Maria Magenta
- Cosmic Wheels
- I Like You
- Yellow Star
- Rock And Roll Souljer
- The Quest
- Age Of Treason
- What The Soul Desires
- Dark-Eyed Blue Jean Angel