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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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  • Castleclear1

    Excellent song with a message! I still like it after all these years!!

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  • Barbara Hood

    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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  • dfadf adfadfa

    Go ahead and cheat a neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend, see where that gets you in life.

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  • dfadf adfadfa

    This version, of course, was by Jinx Dawson and Coven, not by Original Caste.

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  • goodthing52

    Like the part in the movie where Billy Jack says that the white man made 3500 treaties with the native americans and broke 3499 of them. How true.

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  • pef286

    I'm not sure how many deaf people will watch this, or read this, hope a lot. Music lyrics are poetry.

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  • lazz zlo

    I forgot about this stuff when I was growing up!

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  • rexamerica

    all of you and I will admit I haven't read them all. but for those of you who might not know. tom Laughlin supported barack Obama for election to president. the defenders of the individual are not those who ride in the pocket of the rich folks

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  • TheHatchet101

    tell thatb to politicians....they always seem to forget that elemental fact

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  • allen hembry

    that was a very good movie back in the days.

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  • jamesinct

    chuck Norris couldn't carry billy jacks hat !

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