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