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