Universal soldier

Donovan



 EF#BG#m
He's five foot two and he's six feet four
 EF#B
He fights with missiles and with spears
 EF#BG#m
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen
 C#mF#
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
 EF#BG#m
He's a catholic, a hindu, an atheist, a jain,
 EF#B
buddhist and a baptist and a jew
 EF#
And he knows he shouldn't kill
 BG#m
And he knows he always will
 C#mF#
Kill you for me, my friend and me for you
 EF#BG#m
And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France
 EF#BB7
He's fighting for the U.S.A. 
 EF#BG#m
He's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan
 C#mF#
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way
 EF#BG#m
And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the reds
 EF#BB7
He says it's for the peace of all 
 EF#BG#m
He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die
 C#mF#
And he never sees the writing on the wall
 EF#BG#m
But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau
 EF#BB7
Without him Caesar would have stood alone 
 EF#BG#m
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war
 C#mF#
And without him all this killing can't go on
 EF#BG#m
He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame
 EF#B
His orders come from far away no more
 EC#m
They come from here and there and you and me
 BG#m
And brothers can't you see
 C#m
This is not the way we put the end to war
Transcribed by David Linley 4th November 1995
Comments and mistakes to dal23@hermes.cam.ac.uk


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