SOLDIER BLUE
Title song from the film "Soldier Blue" (1970)
(Buffy Sainte-Marie)


Buffy Sainte-Marie (Film Soundtrack) - 1970




Tell you a story, it's a true one
And I'll tell it like you'll understand
And I ain't gonna talk like some history man

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

This, this is my country
Young and growin' free and flowin' sea to sea
Yes, this is my country
Ripe and bearing miracles in ev'ry pond and tree

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
It's beatin' inside us, tellin' us she's here to guide us

Ooh, soldier blue, soldier blue
Can't you see that there's another way to love her
Ooh-ooooohhhhhh

Yes, this is my country
I sprang from her and I'm learnin' how to count upon her
Tall trees and the corn is high country
Yes, I love her and I'm learnin' how to take care of her

Ooh, soldier blue, soldier blue
Can't you see that there's another way to love her
Soldier blue, soldier blue
Can't you see that there's another way to love her
Ooh-ooooohhhhhh


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As recorded for record release by BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE


Tell you a story and it's a true one
And I'll tell it like you'll understand
And I ain't gonna talk like some history man

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, this is, this is my country
Young and growin' and free and flowin' sea to sea
Yes, this is my country
Ripe and bearing miracles in ev'ry pond and tree

Her spirit walks the high country
She's givin' free wild samples and setting an example how to give
Yes, this is my country
Retchin' and turnin', she's like a baby learnin' 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
It's beatin' inside us, tellin' us she's here to guide us

Ooh, soldier blue, soldier blue
Can't you see that there's another way to love her
Ooh-ooooohhhhhh

This is my country
And I sprang from her and I'm learnin' how to count upon her
Tall trees and the goin' is high country
Yes, I love her and I'm learnin' how to take care of her

Whenever the news stories get me down
I take a drink of freedom to think of
North America from toe to crown
And 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
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooooohhhhhh
Soldier blue, soldier blue
Can't you see that there's another way to love her
Can't you see that there's another way to love her
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooooohhhhhh






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - June 2014)