Cover of Buffy Sainte-Marie's anti-war masterpiece
CAPO ON THE 4th
Chords:
C (x32010)
C/B (x20010)
Am (x02210)
D (xx0232)
G (320022)
G/F#(200033)
Em (022000)
INTRO: C C/B Am D G D
C D G G/F# Em
He's five feet two, and he's six feet four,
C D G (strum D string 2th fret and opened)
He fights with missiles and with spears.
C D G G/F# Em
He is all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen.
C Am D
Been a soldier for thousand years.
C D G G/F# Em
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,
C D G
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
C D G G/F# Em
And he knows, he shouldn't kill, and he knows he always will.
C Am D
Kill for me my friend and and me for you.
C D G G/F# 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 G/F# Em
And he's fighting for the Russians, and he's fighting for Japan,
C Am D
And he thinks we put an end to war this way.
C D G G/F# 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 G/F# Em
He's the one who must decide, who's to live and who's to die,
C Am D
And he never sees the writing on the wall.
C D G G/F# 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 G/F# Em
He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war,
C Am D
and without him all this killing can't go on.
C D G G/F# Em
He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame,
C D G
His orders come from far away, no more.
C D
They come from here and there, and you and me,
G G/F# Em
And brothers, can't you see,
C D
This is not the way we put an end to war.
