------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Universal Soldier - Buffy Saint Marie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Morten Hansen Email: Hospital4_87@hotmail.com The song was originally written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, a native american woman, but is mostly associated with Donnovan. Donnovan played the song in E, but its easier to play and to sing in C as it was originally C G C Am He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four, F G C He fights with missiles and with spears. F G C Am He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen, F G Been a soldier for a thousand years. C G C Am He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain, F G C A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew. F G And he knows he shouldn't kill, C Am And he knows he always will, F G Kill you for me my friend and me for you. C G And he's fighting for Canada, C Am He's fighting for France, F C He's fighting for the USA, F G And he's fighting for the Russians, C Am And he's fighting for Japan, F G And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way. C G And he's fighting for Democracy, C Am He's fighting for the Reds, F G He says it's for the peace of all. F G He's the one who must decide, C Am Who's to live and who's to die, F G And he never sees the writing on the wall. C G But without him,How would Hitler C Am have condemned him at Dachau? F G Without him Caesar would have stood alone, C G He's the one who gives his body C Am As a weapon of the war, F G And without him all this killing can't go on. C G C Am He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame, F G His orders come from far away no more, C G C Am They come from here and there and you and me, C Am And brothers can't you see, F G This is not the way we put the end to war.