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