Key: B major•
Intro 1
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E/D#
C#m
F#
F#
Verse 1
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F#/C#
He's five foot- two
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B
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G#m
and he's six feet- four
E
E/D#
F#/C#
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B
He fights with missiles and with spears
E
E/D#
F#/C#
He's all of thirty- one
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B
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G#m
and he's only seven teen
E
C#m
F#
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
Verse 2
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E/D#
F#/C#
He's a Catholic, a Hindu,
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B
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G#m
an Atheist, a Jane
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E/D#
F#/C#
F#/A#
B
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
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F#/C#
And he knows he shouldn't kill
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B
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G#m
And he knows he always will
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C#m
F#
Kill you for me my friend and me for you
Verse 3
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E/D#
F#/C#
And he's fighting for Canada
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B
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G#m
He's fighting for France
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E/D#
F#/C#
F#/A#
B
He's fighting for the U S A
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F#/C#
And he's fighting for the russians
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B
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G#m
And he's fighting for Japan
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F#
an end to war this way
Verse 4
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E/D#
F#/C#
And he's fighting for de mocracy
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B
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G#m
He's fighting for the Reds
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E/D#
F#/C#
He says it's for the peace
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B
of all
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E/D#
F#/C#
He's the one who must decide
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B
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G#m
Who's to live and who's to die
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F#
the writing on the wall
Verse 5
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F#/C#
But without him, how would Hitler
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B
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G#m
have condemned him at Liebau?
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B
Without him, Caesar would've stood alone
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F#/C#
He's the one who gives his body
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B
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G#m
as a weapon of the war
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F#
all this killing can't go on
Bridge 1
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F#/C#
He's the universal soldier
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B
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G#m
and he really is to blame
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E/D#
F#/C#
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B
His orders come from far away no more
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F#/C#
and you and me
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B
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G#m
And brothers, can't you see
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C#m
This is not the way we put the end to war
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