F G C Am
He's five foot two and he's six feet four
F G C
He fights with missiles and with spears
F G C Am
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen
Dm G
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
F G C Am
He's a catholic, a hindu, an atheist, a jain,
F G C
A# buddhist and a baptist and a jew
F G
And he knows he shouldn't kill
C Am
And he knows he always will
Dm G
Kill you for me, my friend and me for you
F G C Am
And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France
F G C C7
He's fighting for the U.S.A.
F G C Am
He's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan
Dm G
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way
F G C Am
And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the reds
F G C C7
He says it's for the peace of all
F G C Am
He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die
Dm G
And he never sees the writing on the wall
F G C Am
But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau
F G C C7
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
F G C Am
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war
Dm G
And without him all this killing can't go on
F G C Am
He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame
F G C
His orders come from far away no more
F Dm
They come from here and there and you and me
C Am
And brothers can't you see
Dm
This is not the way we put the end to war
Transcribed by David Linley 4th November 1995