Universal Soldier chords by Depeche Mode

• Capo on 4th
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Intro:

Em

Verse 1:
     C         D             Em
He's five feet two, and he's six feet four
     C                  D          Em
He fights with missiles and with spears
     C              D                  Em
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen
            C                       Am    D    Em
He's been a soldier for a thousand years

Verse 2:
       C           D          Em
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain
  C                D             Em
a Buddhist, and a Baptist, and a Jew
       C                   D           Em
And he knows he shouldn't kill, and he knows he always will
             C                         Am   D   Em
Kill you for me, my friend, and me for you

Verse 3:
         C            D            Em
And he's killing for Canada, he's killing for France
     C               D    Em
He's killing for the USA
         C               D                  Em
And he's killing for the Russians, and he's killing for Japan
        C                                  Am   D   Em
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way

Verse 4:
         C              D              Em
And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds
    C                 D           Em
He says it's for the peace of us all.
         C               D             Em
He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die
       C                             Am   D   Em
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

Verse 5:
     C                    D               Em
But without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
  C                  D                Em
Without him, Caesar would have stood alone
         C                  D          Em
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war
        C                                 Am   D   Em
And without him all this killing can't go on

Verse 6:
          C         D              Em
He's the universal soldier, and he rarely is to blame
     C                D           Em
His orders come from far away, no more
               C                   D
They come from here and there, and you and me
      Em
And brothers, can't you see?
         C                           Am
This is not the way we put the end to war