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[Verse 1]
CDGEm
He is five feet two, and he's six feet four,
CDG
he fights with missiles and with spears.
CDGEm
He is all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen.
CAmD
's been a soldier for thousand years.
[Verse 2]
CDGEm
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,
CDG
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
CDGEm
And he knows, he shouldn't kill, and he knows he always will,
CAmD
killing for me my friend and me for you.
[Verse 3]
CDGEm
And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France.
CDG
He's fighting for the U.S.A.,
CDGEm
and he's fighting for the Russians, and he's fighting for Japan,
CAmD
and he thinks we put an end to war this way.
[Verse 4]
CDGEm
And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds.
CDG
He says it's for the peace of all.
CDGEm
He's the one who must decide, who's to live and who's to die,
CAmD
and he never sees the writing on the wall.
[Verse 5]
CDGEm
But without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Liebau,
CDG
without him Caesar would have stood alone.
CDGEm
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war,
CAmD
and without him all this killing can't go on.
[Verse 6]
CDGEm
He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame,
CDG
his orders come from far away, no more.
CD
They come from here and there, and you and me,
GEm
and brothers, can't you see,
CAmD
this is not the way we put an end to war.