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Coven – One Tin Soldier lyrics
(Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter)

Listen, children, to a story
That was written long ago
'Bout a kingdom on a mountain
And the valley folk 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
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgment 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 buried treasure,
Tons of gold for which they'd kill
Came an answer from the kingdom,
"With our brothers, we will share
All the secrets of our mountain,
All the riches buried there"

Now, the valley cried with 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 looks 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 who...
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 who...
One tin soldier rides away
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Songwriters: Brian Potter, Dennis Earle Lambert
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One Tin Soldier meanings

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    Bruce J Fustin
    The song is about Greed and that is what most of the people are about today all they do is want and will give nothing Give as much as you get or at least try sometimes you can't, but try. Do not let other people tell you what to think or do. Fight injustice Just like Billy Jack did When you fight for justice we all win not just some of us.
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    This song is about man's desire for all he sees and getting it any way he can, even when its offered to him. Then letting this desire control his behavior to the point of murdering innocent people. The real meaning to life. Peace. Live with your neighbors, your brothers, and all men in peace, that is the ultimate goal. Its about justifying what we do, namely war, in the name of god, however god will not see war as a just means to peace.
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    Solomon_Hawk
    The source of the lyrics is based upon a Native American tribal oral history lesson.
    Truth is, the story was never actually written, but passed along from one generation to the next.
    But if one is diligent and seeks answers, one will find one of the oral histories of the Native Americans which tell of their encounters with giants. One of the stories of a particular tribe speaks of a kingdom on a mountain as the natives were migrating from the west.
    But now you must dig deeper into the story to reveal the hints of truth of what really happened in history. It is said, "history is written by the victor". When one comes to the realization of what really happened, one word comes to mind as history goes, and it's "Karma".
    What the immigrating Europeans had done to the Native Americans, the Native Americans may have certainly done to those who once lived here before them. But history goes incomprehensibly farther back in time than recorded history, much farther back than we can imagine and what we were mislead to believe. Billions of years is a very, very, long time and the face of this world has changed before and since Pangea.
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    I am a child of the sixties and I have seen racial riots and vicious inhuman and unjustified actions men have done to each other. This was happening even during a moment in history dedicated to love and peace. I am ashamed to be called a human. but this song is explaining that the unjust will not get justified in any ones eyes but his own. He will not even hear the trumpets calling Gods children to Heaven ( even when he used Gods name to explain his beliefs and his actions.) This empty man will see foolish emptiness of an everlasting battle between good and evil and ultimately be left alone to wallow in his misery and absence from his fellow man and God himself, oblivious to the damage he himself has caused to all man and earth by trying to force his belief system on others with ultimatums instead of an open mind Things have only come full circle since the 60s and even now I am ashamed to call myself a Christian because of the actions and beliefs of my sisters and brothers. This song sums up the idealism of my teen years and the fatalism of my 70s. My mom once quoted this to me " undoubtedly the world is unfolding as it should ''. I still believe that God has a plan for me and for you and for this world!
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      Bruce J Fustin
      The song is about Greed and that is what most of the people are about today all they do is want and... Read more →
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      This song is about man's desire for all he sees and getting it any way he can, even when its... Read more →

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