Donovan – Universal Soldier (Ukulele)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Universal Soldier – Donovan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Buffy Sainte Marie Released in 1965 Tabbed by: maguri Transpose: - -2 +2 Capo: 2nd fret 4th fret - Play: A G B Key: B B B --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] 2/4 | D | Bm E | % | % | [Verse] 1

     D         E            A        F#m
He's five foot-two and he's six feet-four

   D           E                 A
He fights with missiles and with spears

     D              E            A         F#m
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen

            D                      Bm   E
He's been a soldier for a thousand years

[Verse] 2

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

  D              E             A
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew

       D                  E
And he knows he shouldn't kill

       A               F#m
And he knows he always will

             D                D      Bm   E
Kill you for me my friend and me for you

[Verse] 3

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

     D                E   A
He's fighting for the U S A

         D                E                  A              F#m
And he's fighting for the Russians, and he's fighting for Japan

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

[Verse] 4

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And he's fighting for Democracy, he's fighting for the Reds

   D                 E        A
He says it's for the peace of all

         D              E              A                 F#m
He's the one who must decide, who's to live and who's to die

       D              D              Bm   E
And he never sees the writing on the wall

[Verse] 5

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But without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Labau?

    D              E                 A
Without him Caesar would have stood alone

         D                 E         A             F#m
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war

       D                 D                Bm   E
And without him all this killing can't go on

[Verse] 6

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

    D                E           A
His orders come from far away no more

6/8 from now on

               D                          E
They come from here and there and you and me

    A                  F#m
And brothers can't you see

        D              D              | Bm | Bm
This is not the way we put the end to war