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