Universal Soldier

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[Verse 1]

      C         D             G  
He is five feet two, and he's six
      Em
 feet four,
    C          D                 
he fights with missiles and with 
G
spears.
      C            D              
He is all of thirty-one, and he's 
G       Em
only seventeen.
           C                  
's been a soldier for thousand 
  Am       D
years.


[Verse 2]

        C           D      
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an 
   G          Em
atheist, a Jain,
  C               D             G
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
       C                  D       
And he knows, he shouldn't kill, 
     G                Em
and he knows he always will,
             C               Am   
killing for me my friend and me 
   D
for you.


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[Verse 3]

          C            D          
And he's fighting for Canada, he's
  G             Em
 fighting for France.
      C               D   G
He's fighting for the U.S.A.,
         C                D       
and he's fighting for the 
            G            Em
Russians, and he's fighting for 
Japan,
        C               Am        
and he thinks we put an end to war
       D
 this way.


[Verse 4]

         C               D     
And he's fighting for democracy, 
       G                Em
he's fighting for the Reds.
   C                  D         G
He says it's for the peace of all.
         C               D        
He's the one who must decide, 
     G                  Em
who's to live and who's to die,
        C             Am          
and he never sees the writing on 
    D
the wall.


[Verse 5]

        C                  D      
But without him, how would Hitler 
           G           Em
have condemned him at Liebau,
        C           D             
without him Caesar would have 
    G
stood alone.
          C                D      
He's the one who gives his body as
   G              Em
 a weapon of the war,
        C                Am    
and without him all this killing 
            D
can't go on.


[Verse 6]

          C             D         
He's the universal soldier and he 
   G            Em
really is to blame,
       C              D         
his orders come from far away, no 
   G
more.
                 C                 
They come from here and there, and 
 D
you and me,
     G                  Em
and brothers, can't you see,
         C            Am          
this is not the way we put an end 
     D
to war.