Donovan - Universal Soldier guitar chord

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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

Comments and mistakes to dal23@hermes.cam.ac.uk