Toy Soldiers (song)
"Toy Soldiers" is a 1988 song by Martika appearing on her eponymous debut album in 1988 as a ballad. The single was a number-one hit in the United States. It was sampled by Eminem in his 2004 single, "Like Toy Soldiers". The song's subject matter concerns drug abuse and how it can devastate the lives of the user and those who care about them.
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Famous quotes containing the words toy and/or soldiers:
“The little toy dog is covered with dust,
But sturdy and stanch he stands;
And the little toy soldier is red with rust,
And the musket moulds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was new,
And the soldier was passing fair;
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there.”
—Eugene Field (1850–1895)
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—Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995)