E5 F#5 B5 G#5 He's five foot two and he's six feet four E5 F#5 B5 He fights with missiles and with spears E5 F#5 B5 G#5 He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen C#5 F#5 He's been a soldier for a thousand years E5 F#5 B5 G#5 He's a catholic, a hindu, an atheist, a jain, E5 F#5 B5 A buddhist and a baptist and a jew E5 F#5 And he knows he shouldn't kill B5 G#5 And he knows he always will C#5 F#5 Kill you for me, my friend and me for you E5 F#5 B5 G#5 And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France E5 F#5 B5 B5 He's fighting for the U.S.A. E5 F#5 B5 G#5 He's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan C#5 F#5 And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way E5 F#5 B5 G#5 And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the reds E5 F#5 B5 B5 He says it's for the peace of all E5 F#5 B5 G#5 He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die C#5 F#5 And he never sees the writing on the wall E5 F#5 B5 G#5 But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau E5 F#5 B5 B5 Without him Caesar would have stood alone E5 F#5 B5 G#5 He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war C#5 F#5 And without him all this killing can't go on E5 F#5 B5 G#5 He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame E5 F#5 B5 His orders come from far away no more E5 C#5 They come from here and there and you and me B5 G#5 And brothers can't you see C#5 This is not the way we put the end to war
