One Tin Soldier - The Legend of Billy Jack
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Uploaded on Jun 16, 2009
"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 and reached Number 34 on the American pop charts in early 1970.
"One Tin Soldier" tells the abstract story of a hidden treasure and two neighboring peoples, the Mountain People and the Valley People. The Valley People are aware of a treasure on the mountain, buried under a stone; they send a message to the Mountain People demanding those riches. When told they can share the treasure, the Valley People instead decided to take it all by force. After killing all the Mountain People, the victors move the stone and find nothing more than a simple message: "Peace on Earth." Ironically, the valley people destroyed the treasure in pursuit of it.
The Billy Jack connection:
Jinx Dawson of the band Coven sang the song at a 1971 session with the film's orchestra as part of the soundtrack for the Warner Brothers movie Billy Jack. Jinx asked that her band, Coven, be listed on the recording and film, not her name as a solo artist. This Warner release, titled as "One Tin Soldier: The Legend of Billy Jack," reached #17 on Billboard's Hot 100 in fall 1971, only to be pulled from the charts as it was moving up by the Billy Jack film producers due to legal squabbles over the rights to the recording. The full Coven band then reluctantly re-recorded the song for their MGM album. Thus the MGM album containing a second version of this song displayed their whited-out faces on the cover, contrived again by the film's producer Tom Laughlin. The recording then hit the charts again in both 1973 and 1974 near the end of the Vietnam War and the release of the film The Trial of Billy Jack. The Coven recording was named Number One All Time Requested Song in 1971 and 1973 by the American Radio Broadcasters Association. A slightly different version recorded by Guy Chandler (titled "One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)") charted in summer 1973 (Wikipedia).
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Top Comments
Castleclear1 3 weeks ago
Excellent song with a message! I still like it after all these years!!
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Barbara Hood 3 weeks ago
BILLY JACK - the movie that MADE HISTORY and forever TOUCHED and IMPACTED an ENTIRE GENERATION in a POSITIVE and UPLIFTING way. I found myself expecting and demanding much more of myself in a qualitative way. I held myself to a higher ethical and moral standard than I had previously. I'm proud to say I became a better person in real life as a direct result of BILLY JACK. Thank you Mr. Tom Laughlin, thank you.
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All Comments (2,514)
jamesinct 17 hours ago
chuck Norris couldn't carry billy jacks hat !
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Zed137 18 hours ago
he's a shrink now and a very respected one as well
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willie geo 1 day ago
billy jack beat chuck norriss ass with his shoes off bitches..!!
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srich49 1 day ago
Hadn't heard this song in ages. Just as good now as it was when it was new!
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Contakum 2 days ago
This song is "old" (a hit for Coven in 1971), and here in 2013 it STILL speaks, defends and upholds the best of humanity.
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George Mosier 3 days ago
People never learn until it too late or it happens to them. People should learn to get along despite their differences, because underneath we are all the same.
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Larry W 3 days ago
the liberal movie people don't want things like this shown anymore. sad isn't is. we may never have movie like this again.
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KRACKER3365 3 days ago
Billy Jack was awesome,we need more people like that
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Peetie2013 6 days ago
How about a lot?
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