Universal Soldier Chords by Buffy Sainte-Marie

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_ _ _ [C] He's five foot two [D] _ and [G] he's six feet four. _
_ _ [C] He fights with [D] missiles and with [G] spears _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] He's all at [D] 31 _ [G] and he's only _ [Bm] 17
_ [C] He's been a soldier for a thousand [Bm] _ [Am] years
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_ _ [C] He's a Catholic, [D] a Hindu, [G] an atheist, a Jain
_ [C] a Buddhist [D] and a Baptist [G] and a Jew _ _ _ _
_ [C] And he knows he [D] shouldn't kill _ [G] and he knows he always will kill me [C] for you my friend and [G] me [Am] for you
_ _ [D] _
And _ [C] he's fighting [D] for Canada, [G] he's _ fighting for France
_ [C] He's fighting [D] for the USA
[G] _ _ _ _ And _ [C] he's fighting [D] for the Russians [G] and he's fighting [E] for Japan
[Bm] _ [C] And he thinks we'll put an end [G] to war [C] this way
_ [D] _ _
[C] And he's fighting for [D] democracy _ [G] and fighting for the _ Reds
[C] He says it's for [D] the peace of [G] all _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] He's the one who must [D] _
[Bm] decide who's to live and [G] who's to die
_ And he never _ sees the writing [C] on the _ [D] walls _ _
[C] But without him [D] how would Hitler have [G] condemned him at _ Dachau?
_ [C] Without him _ [D] Caesar would have stood [G] alone _ _ _ _
_ [C] He's the one who [D] gives his body [Bm] as a weapon [G] to war
[C] And without him all this [G]
killing [C] can't go on
_ [D] _
He [C] is the universal [D] soldier _ [G] and he really is to blame
_ But [E] his orders come [D] from far away [G] no more
_ They come [C] from him and [D] you and me _ [Bm] and brothers [G] can't you see?
This [C] is not the way we put [G] an end [Am] to war _ _
Does _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ it still [B] resonate for you when you hear it?
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