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              C           D                   G                Em
    He is five feet two, and he`s six feet four,
          C                D                          G
    he fights with missiles and with spears.
             C                D                    G            Em
    He is all of thirty-one, and he`s only seventeen,
                      C                                Am          D
     `s been a soldier for a thousand years.

                  C              D               G            Em
    He`s a Catholic, a Hindu, and atheist, a Jain,
         C                       D                   G
    a Buddhist, and a Baptist, and a Jew.
                    C                          D                  G                     Em
    And he knows he shouldn`t kill, and he knows he always will,
                      C                                      Am       D
    kill you for me, my friend, and me for you.

                     C               D                   G              Em
    And he`s fighting for Canada, he`s fighting for France,
            C                     D  G
    he`s fighting for the USA.
                    C                       D                           G                 Em
    And he`s fighting for the Russians, and he`s fighting for Japan,
                  C                                                Am        D
    and he thinks we`ll put an end to war this way.

                   C                      D                  G                     Em
    And he`s fighting for democracy, he`s fighting for the Reds,
          C                         D          G
    he says, it`s for the peace of all.
                    C                       D                     G                        Em
    He`s the one who must decide,  who`s to live and who`s to die,
                 C                                          Am       D
    and he never sees the writing on the walls.

                 C                             D                     G                           Em
    But without him how would Hitler, have condemned him at Dachau,
           C                         D                         G
    without him Caesar would have stood alone.
                    C                          D              Bm                Em
    He`s the one who gives his body as a weapon to the war,
                  C                                           Am        D
    and without him all this killing can`t go on.

                   C             D                     G             Em
    He`s the universal soldier and he really is to blame,
                 C                         D                   G
    but his orders come from far away no more,
                               C                          D
    they come from here, and you and me,
            Bm                       Em
    and brothers can`t you see,
                C                                      Am
    this is not a way we put an end to war.