Ballad of the Soldier's Wife is actually a cover of a song written by Kurt Weill, a German musician, in 1942 during WW2. The name of the original song is "Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib" or "And What Was Sent to the Soldier's Wife?" I listened to the so-called Coldplay version of the song (downloaded from limewire of course) and it is definitely not Coldplay. Even someone who's not a huge fan of Coldplay would be able to recognize Chris Martin's voice and it's definitely not him. Some captions claim it to be one of the "oldest Coldplay songs you'll find", which is a croc...if it was, it would listed in their discography somewhere and it isn't...the only reason they say it's old is because they can't support their claims that it's Chris Martin...that's my 2 cents worth