donovan - universal soldier - processed 'stereo'

Edit for headphones. Source file of the edit is the mono release on the 1965 album "Fairytale" (expanded deluxe edition 2001).
Donovan's recording was released on an EP titled "The Universal Soldier" in the United Kingdom (15 August 1965). The EP continued Donovan's run of high charting releases in the UK by reaching #5 on the charts. The tracks on the EP are "Universal Soldier" and "The Ballad of a Crystal Man". B-side: "Do You Hear Me Now?" (Bert Jansch) and "The War Drags On" (Mick Softley). The EP charted #9 in Holland.

The lack of interest in the EP format within the United States led Hickory Records to release the song as a single in September 1965. Donovan's cover of "Universal Soldier" was backed with another track from the British EP: "Do You Hear Me Now?". Donovan's US release of "Universal Soldier" also became a hit, charting higher than his previous single "Colours" and ultimately reaching #53 on the Billboard charts.

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
(Buffy Sainte-Marie)

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'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 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