What is the meaning behind the song one tin soldier?
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One Tin Soldier is a ‘60s era anti-war song written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter. The Canadian pop group "Original Caste" first recorded the song in 1969. The track briefly reached limited popularity locally but never broke into the larger US and World charts.\n\nIn 1972 the US rock group Coven recorded the song as part of the sound track for the movie Billy Jack. This release, titled as "One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)", made it into the top 40 charts, but once again the release became known as a one hit wonder.\n\nThe song is a classic anti-war song that uses an abstract story about a hidden treasure and two feuding people (the Mountain People vs. the Valley People) to describe man's inhumanity to man when greed is involved.\n\nThe lyrics of the song are in the Twin Lakes 4-H camp official songbook.\n\nThe song has been covered by other groups including Gimp, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Peter, Paul and Mary and Joni Mitchell
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It's an awesome slogan for the Army.  Too many people took "An Army of One" to literally mean one....them.  They forgot how to work as a team.  \n\nHave you seen the video for the new slogan??  Click the link below, then below the Images, there's a link to view the "Army Strong" video.  It's awesome.  Enjoy if you haven't seen it!!
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It means that the the speaker is fearful of a rumored threat, and (as others have pointed out) comes from the classic Wizard of Oz.\n\nThere was no "song" accompanying this quote, though Dorothy, Tin Man, and Scarecrow chanted it rhythmically as they proceeded through the Spooky Forest (I'd turn back if I were you).
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alright the lyrics were by Francis Scott Key however he wrote it as a poem on an envelope  the music/melody was an old English Drinking song so the tune to the star spangled banner is  "To Anacreon in Heaven"
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Yes, a single soldier is at times called troop. Troop, trooper, soldier, maggot, pin head, moron, idiot all mean the same thing when they come out of a sergeants mouth.
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i think it's by "america" and it's called "the tin man"
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I am unaware of it being in a movie but I know that this person\nhttp://nobravery.cf.huffingtonpost.com/\nused it as the song track of an anti-war clip.\n\nThe official video is here:\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3eJAn6KfZw
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the soldiers (one of them)
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e\n  \nOne Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack) \nby Lambert-Potter, sung by Coven \n \nListen, children, to a story\nThat was written long ago,\n'Bout a kingdom on a mountain\nAnd the valley-folk below.\n\nOn the mountain was a treasure\nBuried deep beneath the stone,\nAnd the valley-people swore\nThey'd have it for their very own.\n\nGo ahead and hate your neighbor,\nGo ahead and cheat a friend.\nDo it in the name of Heaven,\nYou can justify it in the end.\nThere won't be any trumpets blowing\nCome the judgement day,\nOn the bloody morning after....\nOne tin soldier rides away.\n\nSo the people of the valley\nSent a message up the hill,\nAsking for the buried treasure,\nTons of gold for which they'd kill.\n\nCame an answer from the kingdom,\n"With our brothers we will share\nAll the secrets of our mountain,\nAll the riches buried there."\n\nGo ahead and hate your neighbor,\nGo ahead and cheat a friend.\nDo it in the name of Heaven,\nYou can justify it in the end.\nThere won't be any trumpets blowing\nCome the judgement day,\nOn the bloody morning after....\nOne tin soldier rides away.\n\nNow the valley cried with anger,\n"Mount your horses! Draw your sword!"\nAnd they killed the mountain-people,\nSo they won their just reward.\n\nNow they stood beside the treasure,\nOn the mountain, dark and red.\nTurned the stone and looked beneath it...\n"Peace on Earth" was all it said.\n\nGo ahead and hate your neighbor,\nGo ahead and cheat a friend.\nDo it in the name of Heaven,\nYou can justify it in the end.\nThere won't be any trumpets blowing\nCome the judgement day,\nOn the bloody morning after....\nOne tin soldier rides away.\n\nGo ahead and hate your neighbor,\nGo ahead and cheat a friend.\nDo it in the name of Heaven,\nYou can justify it in the end.\nThere won't be any trumpets blowing\nCome the judgement day,\nOn the bloody morning after....\nOne tin soldier rides away.
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In an interview on ''Popworld'',  KT Tunstall said this song was about coming to a point in your life where you make a major decision. You can either choose the good side (The cherry tree) or the bad side (the black horse).\nBasically its a song about choosing between right and wrong.
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The song "Soldier Side", by System of a Down is about young men going off to war and never coming home.\n\n"They were crying when their sons left.\nGod is wearing black. He has gon so far\nto find the truth he's never going back."
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I'm not sure I know the meaning but it is one of my favorite Eisley songs. Im glad to find someone else who likes them. They are just awesome and have a great sound.
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"Revolution", by Starfield\n\nIf I'm here all alone\nIf I'm left behind \nIf they spit in my face\nIf they hate my kind\n\nI will rise above\nI will live for love\nI will answer to the call\nFor the bond between\nFor the depth unseen\nFor my God forsake it all\n\n'Cause I'm a fire\nI'm a flood\nI'm a revolution\nI am a war\nAlready won\nI'm a revolution\n\nWhen the world is at war \nWhen the grace is gone\nWhen the hungry lay dead\nWhile the rich live on\n\nI will rise above\nI will live for love\nI will answer to the call\nFor the bond between\nFor a depth unseen\nFor my God forsake it all\n\n(Here I stand)\nOpen hands\nWaiting for You\nI won't back down\nI'll live to speak Your truth
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"One Voice" by Billy Gilman
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The Final Inspection\n\nThe soldier stood and faced his God,\nWhich must always come to pass;\nHe hoped his shoes were shining bright,\nJust as brightly as his brass. \n\n"Step forward now, soldier,\nHow shall I deal with you?\nHave you turned the other cheek?\nTo my church have you been true?"\n\nThe soldier squared his shoulders and said,\n"No, Lord, I guess I ain't;\nBecause those of us who carry guns,\nCan't always be a saint.\n\nI've had to work most Sundays,\nAnd at times my talk was rough;\nI've had to break your rules my Lord,\nBecause the world is awfully tough.\n\nBut, I never took a thing\nThat wasn't mine to keep;\nThough I worked a lot of overtime,\nWhen the bills got just too steep.\n\nAnd I never passed a cry for help,\nThough at times I shook with fear;\nAnd sometimes ... God forgive me,\nI've wept unmanly tears.\n\nI know I don't deserve a place\nAmong the people here;\nThey never wanted me around,\nExcept to calm their fears.\n\nIf you've a place for me here, Lord,\nIt needn't be so grand;\nI never expected or had too much,\nBut if you don't, I'll understand."\n\nThere was a silence all around the throne,\nWhere the saints often trod;\nAs the soldier waited quietly,\nFor the judgment of his God.\n\n"Step forward now, soldier,\nYou've borne your burdens well;\nCome walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,\nYou've done your time in HELL!"\n~ Author Unknown ~
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The poem is talking about the futility and uselessness of war.  The bitter irony is that comrades and the enemy are for the most part ordinary people, not that different from each other.  If he met one of each on the street, he could not tell which is which.  The soldier chose to fight, no one forced him to, and in his last moments he is questioning the sense of that decision.   He realizes that in the end this fighting and sacrifice is not going to change much for the ordinary person, so in many ways it is a waste, a waste of life.  He can't turn back the clock, and his destiny awaits him in "the clouds", heaven, the afterlife.\n\nI hope this helps.
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Bernie Taupin read a newspaper article about a Vietnam soldier who had come back from the war slightly messed up in the head- mainly because he'd been fighting for a war that he didn't believe in.  The song "Daniel" is a tribute to men like this soldier.