Universal Solider chords
Donovan- Universal Solider was written by Buffy Sainte-Marie - an Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter. The song was released in 1964 on her debut album It's My Way!
- Featured Artist: Donovan - Scottish musician, songwriter, and record producer. He released the song in Nov 1965, on his second album, Fairytale which included the song on the US version of the album.
- Music: Key of G Major in 4/4 time at approx. 105 bpm (♩)
- Chords: G, Am7, C, D, Em
- Capo: 4th fret if you are playing along with the video (Bb Major)
Universal Solider
Song Key is highlighted - Transpose to any other key C D
Intro: 4/4 | |2/4 |4/4 𝄎 | 𝄎 |
C D G Em
1. He's five foot-two and he's six feet-four
C D G
He fights with mis-siles and with spears
C D G Em
He's all of thir-ty one and he's on-ly se-ven-teen
C Am7 D
Been a sol-dier for a thou-sand | years - |
C D G Em
2. He'a a Catholic, a Hin-du, an Ath-e-ist, a Jain
C D G
A Bud-dhist, and a Bap-tist, and a Jew
C D G Em
And he knows he should-n't kill and he knows he al-ways will
C Am7 D
Kill you for me, my friend, and me for | you - |
C D G Em
3. And he's fight-ing for Ca-na-da He's fight-ing for France
C D G
He's fight-ing for the U. S. A
C D G Em
And he's fight-ing for the Rus-sians and he's fight-ing for Ja-pan
C Am7 D
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this | way - |
C D G Em
4. And he's fight-ing for De-moc-ra-cy and he's fight-ing 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 de-cide who's to live and who's to die
C Am7 D
And he ne-ver sees the writ-ing on the | wall - |
C D G Em
5. But with-out him how would Hit-ler have con-demned them at La-Bau?
C D G
With-out him Cae-sar would have stood a-lone
C D G Em
He's the one who gives his Bo-dy as a wea-pon of the war
C Am7 D
And with-out him all this kill-ing can't go | on - |
C D G Em
6. He's the U-ni-ver-sal Sol-dier and he real-ly is to Blame
C D G
His or-ders come from far a-way no more
C D
They come from here and there and you and me...
12/8...
G Em
And Bro-thers, can't you see?
C Am7
This is not the way we put the end to war... 
