Universal Soldier chords by
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Key: B major

Intro 1

Db

Bbm

Eb

Eb

Verse 1
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He's five foot- two
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Fm Fm 
 
and he's six feet- four
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Eb Eb 
 
Ab Ab 
 
He fights with missiles and with spears
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Eb Eb 
 
He's all of thirty- one
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Fm Fm 
 
and he's only seventeen
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Eb Eb 
 
He's been a soldier for a thousand years

Verse 2
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He's a Catholic, a Hindu,
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Fm Fm 
 
an Atheist, a Jane
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Eb Eb 
 
Ab Ab 
 
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
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Eb Eb 
 
And he knows he shouldn't kill
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Fm Fm 
 
And he knows he always will
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Bbm Bbm 
 
Eb Eb 
 
Kill you for me  my friend and me for you

Verse 3
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Eb Eb 
 
And he's fighting for Canada
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Fm Fm 
 
He's fighting for France
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Ab Ab 
 
He's fighting for the U   SA
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Eb Eb 
 
And he's fighting for the russians
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Fm Fm 
 
And he's fighting for Japan
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And he thinks we'll put
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Eb Eb 
 
an end to war this way

Verse 4
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And he's fighting for democracy
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Fm Fm 
 
He's fighting for the Reds
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Eb Eb 
 
He says it's for the peace
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of all
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Eb Eb 
 
He's the one who must decide
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Fm Fm 
 
Who's to live and who's to die
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And he never sees
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the writing on the wall

Verse 5
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But without him, how would Hitler
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Fm Fm 
 
have condemned him at Liebau?
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Without him, Caesar would've stood alone
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Eb Eb 
 
He's the one who gives his body
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as a weapon of the war
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And without him
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Eb Eb 
 
all this killing can't go on

Bridge 1
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He's the universal soldier
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Fm Fm 
 
and he really is to blame
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Eb Eb 
 
Ab Ab 
 
His orders come from far away no more
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They come from here and there,
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and you and me
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Fm Fm 
 
And brothers, can't you see
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Bbm Bbm 
 
This is not the way we put the end to war

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