SOLDIER BLUE Buffy Sainte-Marie © Gypsy Boy Music-SOCAN I wrote this song as the title theme for the movie Soldier Blue and it became a hit in Europe, Japan and Canada during the summer of 1971. But the movie disappeared from U.S. theatres real fast, so few Americans are familiar with it. As there's a difference between love and rape, the same differences exist in how one views their country. "Soldier Blue" is not about loving one's "nation state"; it's about loving the natural environment in which all nations are related as children of the Sacred. Chris Birkett plays guitar. I look out and I see a land Young and lovely hard and strong For 50,000 years we've danced her praises Prayed our thanks and we've just begun Yes, yes This this is my country Young and growing free and flowing sea to sea Yes this is my country Ripe and bearing miracles in every pond and tree Her spirit walks the high country giving free wild samples and setting an example how to give Yes this is my countrry Retching and turning She's 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 It's beating inside us Telling us she's here to guide us. Ooo Soldier Blue, Soldier Blue Can't you see that there's another way to love her Yes this is my country I sprang from her and I'm learning how to count upon her Tall trees and the corn is high country Yes 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.