Key: B major
Intro 1
Eb
Cm
F
F
Verse 1
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F
He's five foot- two
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Gm
and he's six feet- four
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F
Bb
He fights with missiles and with spears
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F
He's all of thirty- one
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Gm
and he's only seventeen
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Cm
F
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
Verse 2
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F
He's a Catholic, a Hindu,
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Gm
an Atheist, a Jane
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F
Bb
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
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F
And he knows he shouldn't kill
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Gm
And he knows he always will
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Cm
F
Kill you for me my friend and me for you
Verse 3
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F
And he's fighting for Canada
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Gm
He's fighting for France
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F
Bb
He's fighting for the U SA
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F
And he's fighting for the russians
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Gm
And he's fighting for Japan
Eb
And he thinks we'll put
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F
an end to war this way
Verse 4
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F
And he's fighting for democracy
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Gm
He's fighting for the Reds
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F
He says it's for the peace
Bb
of all
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F
He's the one who must decide
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Gm
Who's to live and who's to die
Eb
And he never sees
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F
the writing on the wall
Verse 5
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F
But without him, how would Hitler
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Gm
have condemned him at Liebau?
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F
Bb
Without him, Caesar would've stood alone
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F
He's the one who gives his body
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Gm
as a weapon of the war
Eb
And without him
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F
all this killing can't go on
Bridge 1
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He's the universal soldier
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Gm
and he really is to blame
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F
Bb
His orders come from far away no more
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They come from here and there,
F
and you and me
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Gm
And brothers, can't you see
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Cm
This is not the way we put the end to war
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