• Song:

    Universal Soldier

  • Artist:

    Donovan

  • Album:

    TROUBADOUR: THE DEFINIT...

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Tabbed by: Morten Hansen
Email: Hospital4_87@hotmail.com

Edidet by Hendrik Hofmann
Email: hendrikx@web.de


The song was originally written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, a native american
woman, but is mostly associated with Donnovan. Donnovan played the song
in E, but its easier to play and to sing in C as it was originally


C (x32010@1)G (320003@1)C (x32010@1)     AmHe's (x02210@1)five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
F (133211@1)G (320003@1)   CHe (x32010@1)fights with missiles and with spears.
F (133211@1)   G (320003@1)  C (x32010@1)  AmHe's (x02210@1)all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
	F (133211@1)      GBeen (320003@1)a soldier for a thousand years.

C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1) AmHe'a (x02210@1)a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
F (133211@1)       G (320003@1)CA (x32010@1)Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
	F (133211@1)    GAnd (320003@1)he knows he shouldn't kill,
	C (x32010@1)AmAnd (x02210@1)he knows he always will,
F (133211@1)		     GKill (320003@1)you for me my friend and me for you.

C (x32010@1)	GAnd (320003@1)he's fighting for Canada,
C (x32010@1)   AmHe's (x02210@1)fighting for France,
      F (133211@1)	CHe's (x32010@1)fighting for the USA,
	  F (133211@1)    GAnd (320003@1)he's fighting for the Russians,
	C (x32010@1)AmAnd (x02210@1)he's fighting for Japan,
	F (133211@1)		    GAnd (320003@1)he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

C (x32010@1)	G (320003@1)And he's fighting for Democracy,
C (x32010@1)	AmHe's (x02210@1)fighting for the Reds,
    F (133211@1)		GHe (320003@1)says it's for the peace of all.
	  F (133211@1)GHe's (320003@1)the one who must decide,
	  C (x32010@1)    AmWho's (x02210@1)to live and who's to die,
       F (133211@1)	      GAnd (320003@1)he never sees the writing on the wall.

C (x32010@1)	   GBut (320003@1)without him,How would Hitler 
	C (x32010@1)Amhave (x02210@1)condemned him at Dachau?
    F (133211@1)		     GWithout (320003@1)him Caesar would have stood alone,
	  C (x32010@1)    GHe's (320003@1)the one who gives his body
	C (x32010@1)   AmAs (x02210@1)a weapon of the war,
	F (133211@1)		  GAnd (320003@1)without him all this killing can't go on.

 	C (x32010@1)G (320003@1)    C (x32010@1)AmHe's (x02210@1)the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
	F (133211@1)	  GHis (320003@1)orders come from far away no more,	
C (x32010@1)		AmThey (x02210@1)come here and there and you and me 
G (320003@1)	Emand (022000@1)brothers cant you see
Amthis (x02210@1)is not the way we put the end to war

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