| E | F# | B | G#m | |
| He's | five foot | two and he's | six feet | four |
| E | F# | B | |
| He | fights with | missiles and with | spears |
| E | F# | B | G#m | |
| He's | all of thirty- | one and he's | only seven | teen |
| C#m | F# | |
| He's been a | soldier for a thousand | years |
| E | F# | B | G#m | |
| He's a | catholic, a | hindu, an | atheist, a | jain, |
| E | F# | B | |
| A | buddhist and a | baptist and a | jew |
| E | F# | |
| And he | knows he shouldn't | kill |
| B | G#m | |
| And he | knows he always | will |
| C#m | F# | |
| Kill you for | me, my friend and me for | you |
| E | F# | B | G#m | |
| And he's | fighting for | Canada, he's | fighting for | France |
| E | F# | B | B7 | |
| He's | fighting for the | U.S. | A. |
| E | F# | B | G#m | |
| He's | fighting for the | Russians and he's | fighting for | Japan |
| C#m | F# | |
| And he | thinks we'll put an end to war this | way |
| E | F# | B | G#m | |
| And he's | fighting for de | mocracy, he's | fighting for the | reds |
| E | F# | B | B7 | |
| He | says it's for the | peace of | all |
| E | F# | B | G#m | |
| He's the | one who must de | cide who's to | live and who's to | die |
| C#m | F# | |
| And he | never sees the writing on the | wall |
| E | F# | B | G#m | |
| But with | out him how would | Hitler have con | demned him at Da | chau |
| E | F# | B | B7 | |
| With | out him Caesar | would have stood al | one |
| E | F# | B | G#m | |
| He's the | one who gives his | body as a | weapon of the | war |
| C#m | F# | |
| And with | out him all this killing can't go | on |
| E | F# | B | G#m | |
| He's the | universal | soldier and he | really is to | blame |
| E | F# | B | |
| His | orders come from | far away no | more |
| E | C#m | |
| They come from | here and there and | you and me |
| B | G#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 |