• Song:

    Universal Soldier

  • Artist:

    Donovan

  • Album:

    TROUBADOUR: THE DEFINIT...

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Capo the second or third, your choice...

      C (x32010@1)         D (xx0232@1)           G (320003@1)      Em (022000@1)He is five feet two, and he's six feet four,
    C (x32010@1)        D (xx0232@1)              G (320003@1)   
he fights with missiles and with spears. 
       C (x32010@1)          D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1)     EmHe (022000@1)is all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen.
           C (x32010@1)                  Am (x02210@1)     D's (xx0232@1)been a soldier for thousand years.

        C (x32010@1)         D (xx0232@1)       G (320003@1)       EmHe's (022000@1)a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist,a Chein, 
  C (x32010@1)             D (xx0232@1)           Ga (320003@1)Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew. 
       C (x32010@1)                D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)              EmAnd (022000@1)he knows,he shouldn't kill, and he knows he always will,
             C (x32010@1)                  Am (x02210@1)      Dkill (xx0232@1)you for me my friend and and me for you.

          C (x32010@1)          D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)           EmAnd (022000@1)he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France.
      C (x32010@1)             D (xx0232@1) GHe's (320003@1)fighting for the U.S.A., 
         C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)                 G (320003@1)          Emand (022000@1)he's fighting for the Russians, and he's fighting for Japan,
        C (x32010@1)             Am (x02210@1)             Dand (xx0232@1)he thinks we put an end to war this way.

         C (x32010@1)             D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)              EmAnd (022000@1)he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds.
   C (x32010@1)                D (xx0232@1)       GHe (320003@1)says it's for the peace of all.
         C (x32010@1)             D (xx0232@1)           G (320003@1)                Em (022000@1)He's the one who must decide, who's to live and who's to die,
        C (x32010@1)           Am (x02210@1)            Dand (xx0232@1)he never sees the writing on the wall.

        C (x32010@1)                D (xx0232@1)               G (320003@1)         EmBut (022000@1)without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau,
        C (x32010@1)         D (xx0232@1)               Gwithout (320003@1)him Caesar would have stood alone.
          C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)       G (320003@1)            EmHe's (022000@1)the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war,
        C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)              G (320003@1)      Dand (xx0232@1)without him all this killing can't go on. 
   
          C (x32010@1)           D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)          EmHe's (022000@1)the universal soldier and he really is to blame,
       C (x32010@1)            D (xx0232@1)          Ghis (320003@1)orders come from far away, no more.
                 C (x32010@1)                D (xx0232@1)           
They come from here and there, and you and me, 
     G (320003@1)                Emand (022000@1)brothers, can't you see, 
         C (x32010@1)                         Dthis (xx0232@1)is not the way we put an end to war.

Some would differ with me on the Capo placement...
I have a bad ear for such things. I'm fairly sure that the 
chords are accurate however, comments on the Capo position 
are appreciated! 

Strum on brethren! 

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