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