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DO SOL DO LAm
He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
FA SOL DO
He fights with missiles and with spears.
FA SOL DO LAm
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
FA SOL
Been a soldier for a thousand years.
DO SOL DO LAm
He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
FA SOL DO
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
FA SOL
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
DO LAm
And he knows he always will,
FA SOL
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.
DO SOL
And he's fighting for Canada,
DO LAm
He's fighting for France,
FA DO
He's fighting for the USA,
FA SOL
And he's fighting for the Russians,
DO LAm
And he's fighting for Japan,
FA SOL
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.
DO SOL
And he's fighting for Democracy,
DO LAm
He's fighting for the Reds,
FA SOL
He says it's for the peace of all.
FA SOL
He's the one who must decide,
DO LAm
Who's to live and who's to die,
FA SOL
And he never sees the writing on the wall.
DO SOL
But without him,How would Hitler
DO LAm
have condemned him at Dachau?
FA SOL
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
DO SOL
He's the one who gives his body
DO LAm
As a weapon of the war,
FA SOL
And without him all this killing can't go on.
DO SOL DO LAm
He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
FA SOL
His orders come from far away no more,
DO SOL DO LAm
They come from here and there and you and me,
DO LAm
And brothers can't you see,
FA SOL
This is not the way we put the end to war.
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