Tablature universal soldier - Donovan

          



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  Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 00:33:24 +0000 (GMT)

  From: "Rev. Linda Slug" <dal23@hermes.cam.ac.uk>

  

  Here are the lyrics and chords to the Donovan song "The Universal 

  Soldier", which I think was written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, but I'm not at 

  all sure. I think the place name in the line about Hitler could be wrong, 

  but I can't hear what he's saying on that line. The rest of it should be OK.

  

  		Universal Soldier

  

       E         F#           B        G#m

  He's five foot two and he's six feet four

     E           F#                B

  He fights with missiles and with spears

       E             F#           B         G#m

  He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen

              C#m                    F#

  He's been a soldier for a thousand years

         E           F#        B          G#m

  He's a catholic, a hindu, an atheist, a jain,

    E              F#            B

  A buddhist and a baptist and a jew

         E                  F#

  And he knows he shouldn't kill

         B               G#m

  And he knows he always will

               C#m                      F#

  Kill you for me, my friend and me for you

           E            F#           B            G#m

  And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France

       E                F#  B	B7

  He's fighting for the U.S.A.

       E                F#                B            G#m

  He's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan

         C#m                                 F#

  And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way

           E              F#            B                G#m

  And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the reds

     E                 F#       B		B7

  He says it's for the peace of all

           E              F#            B                 G#m

  He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die

         C#m                           F#

  And he never sees the writing on the wall

          E                 F#             B               G#m

  But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau

      E              F#                 B		B7

  Without him Caesar would have stood alone

           E                 F#        B             G#m

  He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war

          C#m                               F#

  And without him all this killing can't go on

           E         F#             B            G#m

  He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame

      E                F#          B

  His orders come from far away no more

                 E                  C#m  

  They come from here and there and you and me

      B                  G#m

  And brothers can't you see

          C#m             

  This is not the way we put the end to war

  

  

  

  

  Transcribed by David Linley 4th November 1995

  Comments and mistakes to dal23@hermes.cam.ac.uk

  

   


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 Universal soldier, de Donovan 

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