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Universal Soldier by Donovan - Guitar Chords

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            Tabbed by: Morten Hansen
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Edidet by Hendrik Hofmann
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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   Em    Am
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
        F                     G
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

        F           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       Em      Am
And he knows he always will,
             F                        G
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.

          F            G
And he's fighting for Canada,
      C             Am
He's fighting for France,
      F               G C
He's fighting for the USA,
          F                 G
And he's fighting for the Russians,
          C        Em    Am
And he's fighting for Japan,
        F                                   G
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

          F              G      
And he's fighting for Democracy,
      C        Em       Am
He's fighting for the Reds,
    F                 G       C
He says it's for the peace of all.
          F              G
He's the one who must decide,
          C        Em       Am
Who's to live and who's to die,
        F                             G
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

        F                  G
But without him,How would Hitler 
         C         Em     Am
have condemned him at Dachau?
    F               G                 C
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
          F                 G
He's the one who gives his body
      C     Em      Am
As a weapon of the war,
        F                                 G
And without him all this killing can't go on.

         F          G              C        Em  Am
He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
        F             G           C
His orders come from far away no more,  
C          F                  G
They come here and there and you and me 
      C       Am       Em
and brothers cant you see
         F                             G
this is not the way we put the end to war
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