Universal Soldier chords by Donovan (Official Version)
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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He's five foot- two
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and he's six feet- four
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He fights with missiles and with spears
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He's all of thirty- one
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and he's only seventeen
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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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an Atheist, a Jane
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A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
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And he knows he shouldn't kill
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And he knows he always will
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Kill you for me my friend and me for you
Verse 3
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And he's fighting for Canada
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He's fighting for France
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He's fighting for the US A
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And he's fighting for the russians
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And he's fighting for Japan
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And he thinks we'll put
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an end to war this way
Verse 4
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And he's fighting for de mocracy
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He's fighting for the Reds
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He says it's for the peace
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of all
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He's the one who must decide
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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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have condemned him at Liebau?
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Without him, Caesar would've stood alone
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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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all this killing can't go on
Bridge 1
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He's the universal soldier
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and he really is to blame
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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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And brothers, can't you see
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This is not the way we put the end to war
Universal Soldier
Donovan
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