Artist: | Donovan (English) |
User: | Rainer Althoff |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Default |
Abusive: | |
Comment: | - |
Strumming D D DUDU
Intro
C Am D D
C D G Em
He is five feet two, and he's six feet four,
C D G G
He fights with missiles and with spears.
C D G Em
He is all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen.
C C D
's been a soldier for thousand years.
C D G Em
He's a catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Chein,
C D G
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
C D G Em
And he knows, he shouldn't kill, and ke knows He alwayc will.
C D
Kill you for me my Friend and me for you.
C D G Em
And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France.
C D G
He's fighting for the U.S.A.,
C D G Em
And he's fighting for the Russians, and he's fighting for Japan,
C D
and He thinks we put an end to war this way.
C D G Em
And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds.
C D G
He says it's for the peace of all.
C D G Em
He's the one who must decide, who's to live and who's to die,
C D
and he never sees the writing on the wall.
C D G Em
But without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau.
C D G
without him Caesar would have stood alone.
C D G Em
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war,
C D
And without him all this killing can't go on.
C D G Em
He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame,
C D G
his orders comme from far away, no more.
C D
They come from here and there, and you und me,
G Em
and brothers, can't you see,
C D
this is not the way we put an end to war.