One Tin Soldier

Listen children to a story that was written long ago

So the people of the valley sent a message up the hill

Now the valley cried with anger, mount your horses, draw your swords

 

'Bout a kingdom on a mountain and the valley folk below

Asking for the buried treasure tons of gold for which they'd kill

and they killed the mountain people so they won their just re-ward

 

On the mountain was a treasure buried deep beneath a stone

Came an answer from the kingdom "With our brothers we will share

Now they stood beside the treasure on the mountain, dark and red

 

And the valley people swore they'd have it for their very own

All the secrets of our mountain, all the riches buried there.

turned the stone and looked beneath it, "Peace on Earth" was all it said.

Chorus:

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend

 

Do it in the name of heaven, justify it in the end

 

There won't be any trumpets blowing, come the judgment day

 

On the bloody morning after......One tin soldier rides away.

 

 

 

 

*Jinx Dawson of the band Coven sang the song at a 1971 session with the film's orchestra as part of the

soundtrack for the Warner Brothers movie Billy Jack. Jinx asked that her band, Coven , be listed on the

recording and film, not her name as a solo artist. This Warner release, titled as "One Tin Soldier: The Legend

of Billy Jack," reached #26 on Billboard's Hot 100 in fall 1971, only to be pulled from the charts by the Billy

Jack film producers as it was moving up due to legal squabbles over the rights to the recording.

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