One Tin Soldier (Theme from Billy Jack)

Listen, children, to a story

That was written long ago

About 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, justify it in the end

There won't be any trumpets blowing come the judgement 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

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 judgement 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 judgement day

On the bloody morning after

One tin soldier rides away