Universal Soldier chords by Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Red Bull Singers

SimplifiedC · D · G · Em · Am …

GuitarPianoUkulele

Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
He's 5
D 
G 
Em 
foot 2 and he's 6  feet 4.
C 
D 
G 
He fights with missiles and with spears.
C 
D 
He's all of 31, and he's only 17
Em 
C 
He's been a soldier for a
G 
Am 
thousand years
D 
C 
D 
He's a Catholic, a Hindu,
G 
Em 
an atheist, a Jain
C 
D 
G 
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
C 
And he knows he shouldn't kill
D 
Em 
And he knows he always will kill
C 
You for me, my friend,
G 
Am 
and me for you.
D 
C 
D 
And he's fighting for Canada.
G 
Em 
He's fighting for France.
C 
D 
G 
He's fighting for the USA.
C 
And he's fighting for
D 
the Russians.
Em 
And he's fighting for Japan.
C 
And he thinks we'll put
G 
Am 
an end to war this way.
D 
C 
D 
And he's fighting for democracy.
G 
Em 
He's fighting for the Reds.
C 
D 
G 
He says it's for the peace of all
C 
He's the one who must decide
D 
Who's to live and who's to die
Em 
C 
And he never sees the
G 
Am 
writing on the wall
D 
C 
D 
But without him, how would Hitler have
G 
Em 
condemned him at Dachau?
C 
D 
Without him, Caesar would
G 
have stood alone
C 
He's the one who gives his body
D 
Bm 
D 
Em 
as a weapon of the war
C 
Am 
And without him, all this killing can't go on.
D 
C 
D 
He's the universal soldier,
G 
Em 
and he really is to blame.
C 
His or ders come from
D 
G 
far away no more.
C 
D 
They come from him and you and me.
Em 
And brothers, can't you see?
C 
This is not the way we
G 
Am 
put an end to war. you