Donovan (Donovan Philips Leitch), es un cantautor, poeta y guitarrista escocés nacido el 10 de mayo de 1946, en Maryhill, Glasgow. Emergió a mediados de los '60 como cantante folk, lo que le valió ser llamado el Bob Dylan británico, pero pronto se desató de esa etiqueta convirtiéndose en uno de los mayores representantes de la psicodelia de mediados y finales de los sesenta, con un estilo muy personal que fusionaba Jazz, Folk, Rock, y Música étnica.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
The song was originally written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, a native american woman, but is mostly associated with Donnovan. Donnovan played the song in E, but its easier to play and to sing in C as it was originally
CGCAm He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four, FGC He fights with missiles and with spears. FGCAm He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen, FG Been a soldier for a thousand years.
CGCAm He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain, FGC A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew. FG And he knows he shouldn't kill, CAm And he knows he always will, FG Kill you for me my friend and me for you.
CG And he's fighting for Canada, CAm He's fighting for France, FC He's fighting for the USA, FG And he's fighting for the Russians, CAm And he's fighting for Japan, FG And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.
CG And he's fighting for Democracy, CAm He's fighting for the Reds, FG He says it's for the peace of all. FG He's the one who must decide, CAm Who's to live and who's to die, FG And he never sees the writing on the wall.
CG But without him,How would Hitler CAm have condemned him at Dachau? FG Without him Caesar would have stood alone, CG He's the one who gives his body CAm As a weapon of the war, FG And without him all this killing can't go on.
CGCAm He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame, FG His orders come from far away no more, CAm They come here and there and you and me GEm and brothers cant you see Am this is not the way we put the end to war