| 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'a 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 USA, | |
| 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 Labau? | |
| 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 put an end to war. |