UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
by Buffy Sainte-Marie / Donovan · harmonica tab for C diatonic harmonica
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He's five feet two and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of thirtyone and he's only seventeen
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
and he knows he shouldn't kill
and he knows he always will
kill you for me my friend and me for you
And he's fighting for Canada--,
he's fighting for France,
he's fighting for the U S A,
and he's fighting for the Russians
and he's fighting for Japan,
and he thinks we'll put an end to war this way
And he's fighting for Democracy-
and fighting for the Reds
He says it's for the peace of all
He's the one who must decide
who's to live and who's to die
and he never sees the writing on the walls
But without him how would Hitler have
condemned him at Dachau
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He's the one who gives his body-
as a weapon to a war
and without him all this killing can't go on
He's the universal soldier and he
really is to blame
His orders come from far away- no more
They come from him, and you, and me
and brothers can't you see
this is not the way we put an end to war.