C 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 G Been a soldier for a thousand years.C G C Am He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,F G C A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.F G And he knows he shouldn't kill,C Am And he knows he always will,F G Kill you for me my friend and me for you.C G And he's fighting for Canada,C Am He's fighting for France,F C He's fighting for the USA,F G And he's fighting for the Russians,C Am And he's fighting for Japan,F G And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.C G And he's fighting for Democracy,C Am He's fighting for the Reds,F G He says it's for the peace of all.F G He's the one who must decide,C Am Who's to live and who's to die,F G And he never sees the writing on the wall.C G But without him,how would HitlerC Am have condemned him at Dachau?F G Without him Caesar would have stood alone,C G He's the one who gives his bodyC Am As a weapon of the war,F G And without him all this killing can't go on.C G C Am He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,F G His orders come from far away no more,C G C Am They come from here and there and you and me,C Am And brothers can't you see,F G This is not the way we put the end to war.