Universal Soilder

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He's five foot two and he's six feet four
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He fights with missiles and with spears
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He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen
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He's been a soldier for a thousand years
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He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jane
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A Buddhist a Baptist and Jew
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He knows he shouldn't kill but he knows he always will
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kill you my friend for me and me for you
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He's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France
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He's fighting for the U S A
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He's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan
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And he thinks he'll put an end to war that way
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And he's fighting for democracy he's fighting for the reds
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He says it's for the peace of all
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He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die
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And he never sees the writing on the wall
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But without him how could Hitler have condemned him at Dachau
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Without him Caesar would have stood alone
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He's the one who gives his body as the weapon of the war
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And without him all this killing can't go on
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Yes He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame
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But his orders come from far away no more
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They come from him and you and me and brothers can't you see
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This is not the way we put an end to war?