He's five foot two
and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles
and with spears
He's all of thirty one
and he's only seventeen
He's been a soldier
for a thousand years
He's a Catholic a Hindu
an Atheist a Jain
A Buddhist and a Baptist
and a Jew
And he knows he shouldn't kill
And he knows he always will
Kill you for me,my friend
and me for you
And he's fighting for Canada
he's fighting for France
He's fighting for the U.S.A
And he's fighting
for the Russians
and he's fighting for Japan
And he thinks we'll put an end
to war this way
And he's fighting
for democracy
he's fighting for the Reds
He says it's for
the peace of all
He's the one who must decide
Who's to live and who's to die
And he never sees the writing
on the wall
But without him
how would Hitler
have condemned him at Dachau
Without him Caesar
would have stood alone
He's the one
who gives his body
as a weapon of the war
And without him
all this killing can't go on
He's the universal soldier
and he really is to blame
His orders come from
far away no more
They come from here and there
and you and me
And brothers, can't you see
This is not the way
we'll put the end to war