Single:
Tin Soldier entered the Australian singles chart* on 13 January 1968 and peaked at #3. It was #36 on the Top 100 of 1968.
Songwriters:
Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane
Producers:
Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane
Record label of Australian release:
Stateside
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Tin Soldier was originally written by Steve Marriott for singer P.P. Arnold, but Marriott liked it so much he kept it himself. It was a song that he wrote to his first wife, Jenny Rylance. P.P. Arnold can be heard singing backing vocals on the song and also performed as guest singer at television recordings of the song.
The song seems to have been influenced by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Steadfast Tin Soldier, the story of an imperfect tin soldier’s desire for a paper ballerina.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Soldier
Lyrics:
I, am a little tin soldier
That wants to jump into your fire
You are a look in your eye
A dream passing by in the sky
But I don’t understand
And all I need, is treat me like a man
′Cause I ain’t no child
Take me like I am
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