Universal Soldier

cover of donovan’s anti - war masterpiece capo on the 4th chords : C ( x32010 ) C/B ( x20010 ) Am ( x02210 ) D ( xx0232 ) G ( 320022 ) Em ( 022000 ) Intro : C C/B Am D G D C D G Em he’s five feet two , and he’s six feet four , C D G ( strum D string 2th fret and opened ) he fights with missiles and with spears . C D G Em he is all of thirty - one , and he’s only seventeen . C Am D been a soldier for thousand years . C D G Em he’s a catholic , a hindu , an atheist , a jain , C D G a buddhist and a baptist and a jew . C D G Em and he knows , he shouldn’t kill , and he knows he always will . C Am D kill for me my friend and and me for you . C D G Em and he’s fighting for canada , he’s fighting for france . C D G he’s fighting for the u . s . A . C D G Em and he’s fighting for the russians , and he’s fighting for japan , C Am D and he thinks we put an end to war this way . C D G Em and he’s fighting for democracy , he’s fighting for the reds . C D G he says it’s for the peace of all . C D G Em he’s the one who must decide , who’s to live and who’s to die , C Am D and he never sees the writing on the wall . C D G Em but without him , how would hitler have condemned him at dachau , C D G without him caesar would have stood alone . C D G Em he’s the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war , C D G D and without him all this killing can’t go on . C D G Em he’s the universal soldier and he really is to blame , C D G his orders come from far away , no more . C D they come from here and there , and you and me , G Em and brothers , can’t you see , C D this is not the way we put an end to war .