Tom: B
EF#BG#m
He's five foot two and he's six feet four
EF#B
He fights with missiles and with spears
EF#BG#m
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen
C#mF#
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
EF#BG#m
He's a catholic, a hindu, an atheist, a jain,
EF#B
A buddhist and a baptist and a jew
EF#
And he knows he shouldn't kill
BG#m
And he knows he always will
C#mF#
Kill you for me, my friend and me for you
EF#BG#m
And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France
EF#BB7
He's fighting for the U.S.A.
EF#BG#m
He's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan
C#mF#
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way
EF#BG#m
And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the reds
EF#BB7
He says it's for the peace of all
EF#BG#m
He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die
C#mF#
And he never sees the writing on the wall
EF#BG#m
But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau
EF#BB7
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
EF#BG#m
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war
C#mF#
And without him all this killing can't go on
EF#BG#m
He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame
EF#B
His orders come from far away no more
EC#m
They come from here and there and you and me
BG#m
And brothers can't you see
C#m
This is not the way we put the end to war