One Tin Soldier

[leftyjew]

My Dad was playing guitar yesterday and my nieces were "dancing" to it. I was looking through some of the sheet music and my niece asked what I was doing. I said I was reading a song and she asked how it sounded. I happened to be reading "Me and Bobby McGee" and asked my dad to play it. After a while of that, he started playing "One Tin Soldier" - not one of his classics, so he was a bit rusty. Actually, I'd never heard him play it before, so for that he was pretty good. Anyway, it got my nieces to demand more soft music and when my dad quit, we put on Pachabel.
Anyway, I like "One Tin Soldier" and will post the lyrics :

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 the stone,
And the valley-people swore
They'd have it for their very own.

Chorus:
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.

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

(Chorus x2)