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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 00:33:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Rev. Linda Slug" 

Here are the lyrics and chords to the Donovan song "The Universal
Soldier", which I think was written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, but I'm not at
all sure. I think the place name in the line about Hitler could be wrong,
but I can't hear what he's saying on that line. The rest of it should be OK.

		Universal Soldier

     E (022100@1)       F# (244322@1)         B (x2444x@1)      G#mHe's (133111@4)five foot two and he's six feet four
   E (022100@1)         F# (244322@1)              BHe (x2444x@1)fights with missiles and with spears
     E (022100@1)           F# (244322@1)         B (x2444x@1)       G#mHe's (133111@4)all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen
            C#m (x13321@4)                  F#He's (244322@1)been a soldier for a thousand years
       E (022100@1)         F# (244322@1)      B (x2444x@1)        G#mHe's (133111@4)a catholic, a hindu, an atheist, a jain,
  E (022100@1)            F# (244322@1)          BA (x2444x@1)buddhist and a baptist and a jew
       E (022100@1)                F#And (244322@1)he knows he shouldn't kill
       B (x2444x@1)             G#mAnd (133111@4)he knows he always will
             C#m (x13321@4)                    F#Kill (244322@1)you for me, my friend and me for you
         E (022100@1)          F# (244322@1)         B (x2444x@1)          G#mAnd (133111@4)he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France
     E (022100@1)              F# (244322@1)B (x2444x@1)name="chord_x21202@1">B7
He's fighting for the U.S.A.
     E (022100@1)              F# (244322@1)              B (x2444x@1)          G#mHe's (133111@4)fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan
       C#m (x13321@4)                               F#And (244322@1)he thinks we'll put an end to war this way
         E (022100@1)            F# (244322@1)          B (x2444x@1)              G#mAnd (133111@4)he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the reds
   E (022100@1)               F# (244322@1)     B (x2444x@1)B7He (x21202@1)says it's for the peace of all
         E (022100@1)            F# (244322@1)          B (x2444x@1)               G#mHe's (133111@4)the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die
       C#m (x13321@4)                         F#And (244322@1)he never sees the writing on the wall
        E (022100@1)               F# (244322@1)           B (x2444x@1)             G#mBut (133111@4)without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau
    E (022100@1)            F# (244322@1)               B (x2444x@1)B7Without (x21202@1)him Caesar would have stood alone
         E (022100@1)               F# (244322@1)      B (x2444x@1)           G#mHe's (133111@4)the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war
        C#m (x13321@4)                             F#And (244322@1)without him all this killing can't go on
         E (022100@1)       F# (244322@1)           B (x2444x@1)          G#mHe's (133111@4)the universal soldier and he really is to blame
    E (022100@1)              F# (244322@1)        BHis (x2444x@1)orders come from far away no more
               E (022100@1)                C#mThey (x13321@4)come from here and there and you and me
    B (x2444x@1)                G#mAnd (133111@4)brothers can't you see
        C#mThis (x13321@4)is not the way we put the end to war


Transcribed by David Linley 4th November 1995
Comments and mistakes to dal23@hermes.cam.ac.uk