DONOVAN - "universal soldier" Tablature

Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 00:33:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Rev. Linda Slug" <dal23@hermes.cam.ac.uk>

Here are the lyrics and chords to the Donovan song "The Universal
Soldier", which I think was written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, but I'm not at
all sure. I think the place name in the line about Hitler could be wrong,
but I can't hear what he's saying on that line. The rest of it should be OK.

Universal Soldier

E F# B G#m
He's five foot two and ...
E F# B
He fights with missiles and ...
E F# B G#m
He's all of thirty-one ...
C#m F#
He's been a soldier for a ...
E F# B G#m
He's a catholic, a hindu, ...,
E F# B
A buddhist and a ...
E F#
And he knows he ...
B G#m
And he knows he ...
C#m F#
Kill you for me, my friend ...
E F# B G#m
And he's fighting ...
E F# B B7
He's fighting for ...
E F# B G#m
He's fighting for the Russians ..
C#m F#
And he thinks we'll put an ...
E F# B G#m
And he's fighting for democracy, ...
E F# B B7
He says it's for ...
E F# B G#m
He's the one who must decide who's ...
C#m F#
And he never sees the ....
E F# B G#m
But without him how would Hitler have ...
E F# B B7
Without him Caes...
E F# B G#m
He's the one who gives his body as ...
C#m F#
And without him all this ...
E F# B G#m
He's the universal soldier and ...
E F# B
His orders come from ...
E C#m
They come from here and ...
B G#m
And brothers can't ...
C#m
This is not the way we ...




Transcribed by David Linley 4th November 1995
Comments and mistakes to dal23@hermes.cam.ac.uk