Universal Soldier chords by Jake Bugg

Chords with lyrics

Cover of Donovan's anti-war masterpiece

CAPO ON THE 4th

Chords:
C majorC  (x32010)
C/BC/B (x20010)
A minorAm (x02210)
D MajorD  (xx0232)
G+G  (320022)
E minorEm (022000)


INTRO: C majorC C/BC/B A minorAm D MajorD G+G D MajorD

   C majorC      D MajorD       G+G    E minorEm
He's five feet two, and he's six feet four,
  C majorC     D MajorD        G+G (strum D MajorD string 2th fret and opened)
He fights with missiles and with spears.
    C majorC      D MajorD       G+G    E minorEm
He is all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen.
     C majorC        A minorAm   D MajorD
Been a soldier for thousand years.


    C majorC      D MajorD     G+G     E minorEm
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,
 C majorC        D MajorD       G+G
A augmentedA Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
    C majorC         D MajorD      G+G        E minorEm
And he knows, he shouldn't kill, and he knows he always will.
     C majorC          A minorAm    D MajorD
Kill for me my friend and and me for you.


     C majorC      D MajorD      G+G       E minorEm
And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France.
   C majorC        D MajorD  G+G
He's fighting for the U.S.A.
     C majorC        D MajorD          G+G      E minorEm
And he's fighting for the Russians, and he's fighting for Japan,
    C majorC        A minorAm        D MajorD
And he thinks we put an end to war this way.


     C majorC        D MajorD      G+G        E minorEm
And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds.
  C majorC         D MajorD     G+G
He says it's for the peace of all.
     C majorC        D MajorD       G+G         E minorEm
He's the one who must decide, who's to live and who's to die,
    C majorC       A minorAm       D MajorD
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

    C majorC         D MajorD         G+G      E minorEm
But without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau,
    C majorC      D MajorD         G+G
Without him Caesar would have stood alone.
     C majorC        D MajorD     G+G       E minorEm
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war,
    C majorC        D MajorD        G+G    D MajorD
and without him all this killing can't go on.


     C majorC       D MajorD      G+G      E minorEm
He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame,
    C majorC       D MajorD      G+G
His orders come from far away, no more.
         C majorC         D MajorD
They come from here and there, and you and me,
   G+G         E minorEm
And brothers, can't you see,
     C majorC              D MajorD