Donovan Leitch nasceu em 10/05/1946 em Glasgow (Escócia).
Aprendeu cedo a tocar guitarra, tinha talento com os instrumentos e a música folk, como Woody Guthrie. Com 18 anos foi convidado para tocar em um programa de TV chamado "Ready Steady Go".
Com seu álbum de 1965 "What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid", Donovan fora, à época, comumente comparado a Bob Dylan. Mas Donavan era diferente. No mesmo ano, entretanto, o álbum "Fairytale" denota uma evolução singular em suas composições
Quatro anos de trabalho duro!Neste mês de maio fizemos quatro anos no ar. Continuamos trabalhando na divulgação deste maravilhoso instrumento, obrigado por participar da nossa história!
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