Chords with lyrics
Universal Soldier
Glen Campbell
written by Buffy Sainte-Marie
from the album Highwaymen
Ballad with no chorus or Verses
Intro C majorC DmDm G+G C majorC DmDm G+G
FF G+G C majorC A minorAm
He's five foot two and he's six feet four
FF G+G C majorC
He fights with missiles and with spears
FF G+G C majorC A minorAm
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen
FF DmDm G+G
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
FF G+G C majorC A minorAm
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jane
FF G+G C majorC
A augmentedA Buddhist a Baptist and Jew
FF G+G C majorC A minorAm
He knows he shouldn't kill but he knows he always will
FF DmDm G+G
kill you my friend for me and me for you
FF G+G C majorC A minorAm
He's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France
FF G+G C majorC
He's fighting for the U S A augmentedA
FF G+G C majorC A minorAm
He's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan
FF DmDm G+G
And he thinks he'll put an end to war that way
FF G+G C majorC A minorAm
And he's fighting for democracy he's fighting for the reds
FF G+G C majorC
He says it's for the peace of all
FF G+G C majorC A minorAm
He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die
FF DmDm G+G
And he never sees the writing on the wall
FF G+G C majorC A minorAm
But without him how could Hitler have condemned him at Dachau
FF G+G C majorC
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
FF G+G C majorC A minorAm
He's the one who gives his body as the weapon of the war
FF DmDm G+G
And without him all this killing can't go on
FF G+G C majorC A minorAm
Yes He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame
FF G+G C majorC
But his orders come from far away no more
FF G+G C majorC A minorAm
They come from him and you and me and brothers can't you see
FF C majorC DmDm
This is not the way we put an end to war?
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