Standard (EADGBE)

Verse i

Listen children to a story that was written long ago

'Bout 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.

(Chorus:)

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

 No Chord

On the bloody morning after - one tin soldier rides away.

Verse ii

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.”

Chorus

Verse iii

Now the valley cried with anger, mount your horses, draw your sword!

And they killed the mountain people, sure they’d 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.

Chorus