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