One Tin Soldier – Coven

Listen children to a story That was written long ago 'Bout a kingdom, on a mountain And the valley folk below On the mountian was a treasure
Burried deep beneath a stone And the valley people swore
They'd have it for their very own

(**)  Go ahead and hate your neighbor Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of Heaven You can justify it in the end
There wont be any trumpets blowing Come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after who..One tin soldier rides away

So the people of the valley Sent a message up the hill
Asking for the burried treasure Tons of gold for which they'd kill
Cam an answer from the kingdom  With our brothers we will share
All the secrets of our mountain N' all the riches burried there

Now the valley cried in anger Mount your horses  Draw your sword
And they killed the mountain people  So they won their just reward
Now they stood beside the treasure On the mountain dark and red
Turn the stone and which beneath it  "Peace on Earth" Was all it said

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One Tin Soldier" is a 1960s era anti-war song . The track went to No. 6 on the RPM Magazine charts and hit the No.1 position on Canada's most influential radio chain, CHUM-AM, in Canada and reached Number 34 on the American pop charts in early 1970. A 1972 remake by Skeeter Davis had light success on the American country charts but did very well in Canada    (wikipedia)