Donovan – Universal Soldier (Guitar)

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

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he fights with missiles and with spears.

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

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Been a soldier for a thousand years.

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He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,

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a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.

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And he knows he shouldn't kill, and he knows he always will,

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killing for me my friend and me for you.

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

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

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

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

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And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds.

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He says it's for the peace of all.

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

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and he never sees the writing on the wall.

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But without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Liebau,

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without him Caesar would have stood alone.

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

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and without him all this killing can't go on.

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

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his orders come from far away, no more.

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They come from here and there, and you and me,

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and brothers, can't you see,

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this is not the way we put the end to war.