A# C F Dm
He's five foot two and he's six feet four
A# C F
He fights with missiles and with spears
A# C F Dm
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen
Gm C
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
A# C F Dm
He's a catholic, a hindu, an atheist, a jain,
A# C F
D# buddhist and a baptist and a jew
A# C
And he knows he shouldn't kill
F Dm
And he knows he always will
Gm C
Kill you for me, my friend and me for you
A# C F Dm
And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France
A# C F F7
He's fighting for the U.S.A.
A# C F Dm
He's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan
Gm C
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way
A# C F Dm
And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the reds
A# C F F7
He says it's for the peace of all
A# C F Dm
He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die
Gm C
And he never sees the writing on the wall
A# C F Dm
But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau
A# C F F7
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
A# C F Dm
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war
Gm C
And without him all this killing can't go on
A# C F Dm
He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame
A# C F
His orders come from far away no more
A# Gm
They come from here and there and you and me
F Dm
And brothers can't you see
Gm
This is not the way we put the end to war
Transcribed by David Linley 4th November 1995