F# G# C# A#m
He's five foot two and he's six feet four
F# G# C#
He fights with missiles and with spears
F# G# C# A#m
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen
D#m G#
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
F# G# C# A#m
He's a catholic, a hindu, an atheist, a jain,
F# G# C#
B buddhist and a baptist and a jew
F# G#
And he knows he shouldn't kill
C# A#m
And he knows he always will
D#m G#
Kill you for me, my friend and me for you
F# G# C# A#m
And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France
F# G# C# C#7
He's fighting for the U.S.A.
F# G# C# A#m
He's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan
D#m G#
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way
F# G# C# A#m
And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the reds
F# G# C# C#7
He says it's for the peace of all
F# G# C# A#m
He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die
D#m G#
And he never sees the writing on the wall
F# G# C# A#m
But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau
F# G# C# C#7
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
F# G# C# A#m
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war
D#m G#
And without him all this killing can't go on
F# G# C# A#m
He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame
F# G# C#
His orders come from far away no more
F# D#m
They come from here and there and you and me
C# A#m
And brothers can't you see
D#m
This is not the way we put the end to war
Transcribed by David Linley 4th November 1995