Corrected by: Summer [email protected]
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 00:33:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: «Rev. Linda Slug»
Here are the lyrics and chords to the Donovan song «The Universal
Soldier», which I think was written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, but I’m not at
All sure. I think the place name in the line about Hitler could be wrong,
But I can’t hear what he’s saying on that line. The rest of it should be OK.
Universal Soldier
E F# B G#m
He’s five foot two and he’s six feet four
E F# B
He fights with missiles and with spears
E F# B G#m
He’s all of thirty-one and he’s only seventeen
C#m F#
He’s been a soldier for a thousand years
E F# B G#m
He’s a catholic, a hindu, an atheist, a jain,
E F# B
A buddhist and a baptist and a jew
E F#
And he knows he shouldn’t kill
B G#m
And he knows he always will
C#m F#
Kill you for me, my friend and me for you
E F# B G#m
And he’s fighting for Canada, he’s fighting for France
E F# B B7
He’s fighting for the U.S.A.
E F# B G#m
He’s fighting for the Russians and he’s fighting for Japan
C#m F#
And he thinks we’ll put an end to war this way
E F# B G#m
And he’s fighting for democracy, he’s fighting for the reds
E F# B B7
He says it’s for the peace of all
E F# B G#m
He’s the one who must decide who’s to live and who’s to die
C#m F#
And he never sees the writing on the wall
E F# B G#m
But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Labau
E F# B B7
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
E F# B G#m
He’s the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war
C#m F#
And without him all this killing can’t go on
E F# B G#m
He’s the universal soldier and he really is to blame
E F# B
His orders come from far away no more
E C#m
They come from here and there and you and me
B G#m
And brothers can’t you see
C#m
This is not the way we put the end to war
Transcribed by David Linley 4th November 1995
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