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[Verse 1]
C D G Em
He is five feet two, and he's six feet four,
C D G
he fights with missiles and with spears.
C D G Em
He is all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen.
C Am D
's been a soldier for thousand years.
[Verse 2]
C D G Em
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,
C D G
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
C D G Em
And he knows, he shouldn't kill, and he knows he always will,
C Am D
killing for me my friend and me for you.
[Verse 3]
C D G Em
And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France.
C D G
He's fighting for the U.S.A.,
C D G Em
and he's fighting for the Russians, and he's fighting for Japan,
C Am D
and he thinks we put an end to war this way.
[Verse 4]
C D G Em
And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds.
C D G
He says it's for the peace of all.
C D G Em
He's the one who must decide, who's to live and who's to die,
C Am D
and he never sees the writing on the wall.
[Verse 5]
C D G Em
But without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Liebau,
C D G
without him Caesar would have stood alone.
C D G Em
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war,
C Am D
and without him all this killing can't go on.
[Verse 6]
C D G Em
He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame,
C D G
his orders come from far away, no more.
C D
They come from here and there, and you and me,
G Em
and brothers, can't you see,
C Am D
this is not the way we put an end to war.
