Soldier Blue

Album: Soldier Blue (1970)
Charted: 7
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  • I'll tell you a story and it's a true one
    And I'll tell it like you understand
    And I ain't gonna talk like some history maid

    I look out and I see a land
    Young and lovely, hard and strong
    For fifty thousand years we've danced her praises
    Prayed our thanks and we've just begun
    Yes, yes

    Yes this is my country
    Young and growing
    Free and flowing, see to see
    Yes, this is my country
    Ripe and bearing miracles
    in ever pond and tree
    Her spirit walks the high country
    She's giving free wild samples
    And setting an example how to give

    Yes this is my country
    Retching and turning
    She is like a baby learning how to live
    i can stand upon a hill at dawn
    Look all around me
    Feel her surround me
    Soldier blue
    Can't you see her life has just begun
    Beating inside us, telling us she's here to guide us

    Soldier Blue, Soldier Blue, Soldier Blue
    Can't you see that there's another way to love her

    This is my country
    And I sprang from her
    And I'm learning how to count upon her
    Tall trees and the corn is high country
    I guess I love her
    And I'm learning how to take care of her

    When the news stories get me down
    I take a drink of freedom to think of
    North America from toe to crown
    It's never long before
    I know just why I belong here

    Soldier Blue, Soldier Blue
    Can't you see that there's another way to love her Writer/s: Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Lino Franich from Perth, Western AustraliaI saw the film, Soldier Blue, when I was about 13 and I've remembered it ever since. The final scene, the song...just devastating. I'm now 56.
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