Joan Baez - One Tin Soldier

 

 

 

 

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  one Tin Soldier
        
         - Joan Baez -

Listen, children, to a story
 
That was written long ago
 
About a Kingdom on a mountain
 
And a valley folk down below
 

On the mountain was a treasure
 
Buried 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
 

But there won't be any trumpets blowing
 
Come the judgment day
 
On the bloody morning after
 
One tin soldier rides away
 

So the people of the valley
 
Sent a message up the hill
 
Asking for the buried treasure
 
Tons of gold for which they'd kill
 

Came an answer from the Kingdom
 
”With our brothers, we will share
 
All the riches of our mountain
 
All the secrets buried there”

Now the valley swore with anger
 
”Mount your horses, draw your swords”
 
And they killed the mountain people
 
So they won their just rewards
 

Now stood beside the treasure
 
On the mountain dark and red
 
Turned the stone and looked beneath it
 
”Peace on Earth”, was all it said
 

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 won't be any trumpets blowing
 
Come the judgment day
 
On the bloody morning after
 
One tin soldier rides away
 

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 won't be any trumpets blowing
 
Come the judgment day
 
On the bloody morning after
 
One tin soldier rides away