The universal soldier
14.EL SOLDAT UNÍVERSAL.The universal soldier/Buffie Sainte Marie.Adap. Ramon Casajoana
Está Iluitant per França,
está Iluitant pel Canadá,
Iluita pels Estats Units.
I també Iluita pels russos,
també Iluita pel Japó
i creu que així la guerra acabará.
SOL RE SOL MIm
SOL És alt oRE baix, és SOLprim o MImgros,
lluita amb missils o a cops de roc.
pot tenir els seus cinquanta anys
o tenir ne sols disset,
será soldat durant mil anys.
És católic, és ateu, és hindú o és jueu,
budista, baptista o inconscient,
ell sap que matar és un crim
i també que ens matará
a mi per tu, germà, i a tu per mi.
Lluita per la democrácia,
socialisme o qui sap qué,
ell diu que és per la pau de tots.
Ell és qui ha de decidir
qui ha de viure i de morir.
Només fa el que li manen des de dalt.
Però sense ell no hagués pogut
Hitler tirar endavant
i César s'hagués quedat tot sol.
Ell és qui ofereix el cos
perqué faci de punyal
i sense ell tots aquests crims no podrien ser.
És el Soldat Universal,
és el culpable de tot.
Les.ordres no vénen de gaire lluny, l
es donem tu i jo; germans, que no ho veieu?
aquest no és el camí per anar a la pau.
The universal soldier/
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,
He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
He'a 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 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,
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 an end to war.