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     F         G             C       Am 
He's five foot two and he's six feet four 
F         G                 C 
He fights with missiles and with spears 
F                  G       C              Am 
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen 
            F                      Dm    G 
He's been a soldier for a thousand years 
       F            G          C         Am 
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jane 
F             G          C 
A Buddhist a Baptist and Jew 
F                     G            C              Am 
He knows he shouldn't kill but he knows he always will  
     F                               Dm  G 
kill you my friend for me and me for you 
      F           G              C          Am 
He's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France 
F                     G   C 
He's fighting for the U S A 
      F                G                 C            Am 
He's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan 
       F                                   Dm  G 
And he thinks he'll put an end to war that way 
         F              G             C               Am 
And he's fighting for democracy he's fighting for the reds 
    F                G        C 
He says it's for the peace of all 
    F                  G              C                 Am 
He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die 
       F                             Dm    G 
And he never sees the writing on the wall 
    F                     G                C           Am 
But without him how could Hitler have condemned him at Dachau 
F                  G                C 
Without him Caesar would have stood alone 
         F                 G           C             Am 
He's the one who gives his body as the weapon of the war 
    F                                     Dm  G 
And without him all this killing can't go on 
              F           G           C            Am 
Yes He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame 
        F                G           C 
But his orders come from far away no more 
               F               G          C              Am 
They come from him and you and me and brothers can't you see 
        F                     C      Dm 
This is not the way we put an end to war?