No vocal by Buffy-Sainte Marie!
Thomas E. Martin | Sacramento, CA | 07/12/2005
(1 out of 5 stars)
"This cannot be the original soundtack recording from Soldier Blue because the 1st cut, SOLDIER BLUE, has no vocal by Buffy Sainte-Marie, at all, only music! She is even mistakenly listed as the artist. The song, SOLDIER BLUE, sung by her, was my only reason to buy this CD.
In fact the description Amazon provides for this CD has nothing whatsoever to do with this soundtrack and is obviously a mistake.
She writes:
"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."
These are the lyrics she wrote and sang in the song SOLDIER BLUE that was actually used in the movie:
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.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
© Gypsy Boy Music-SOCAN
Also, track 14, titled "Zeppelin-Main Theme" is another song from the movie CATLOW. There is a mysterious track 16 which appears when the CD is played that isn't even listed but sounds like another track from the movie ZEPPELIN. The CD only lists 15 tracks but 16 tracks are actually there.
Bottom line: Bogus description of a bogus album. Maybe I got a reject CD with errors by mistake so I'm anxcious to here from others.
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Soldier Blue CD
G. Stanford | Mesquite,TX USA | 09/19/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Great CD although as mentioned by an earlier post from 3 years ago the CD is mislabeled.
There is actually a song the do not show on the CD, Fields Of Green and Skies of Blue with vocals should be the 7th track and then the rest of the tracks will me moved down a notch making 16 total."
Track Listings (16) - Disc #1