Key: D
Introduction: C
C/B
Am
D
G
D
C
D
G
Em
He's five feet two, and he's six feet four,
C
D
G
D
string
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
Been a soldier for thousand years.
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
Kill for me my friend and and me for you.
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.
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.
C
D
G
Em
But without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau,
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.
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
D
This is not the way we put an end to war.