Lyrics:

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