Amsterdam

Okay, Yoko
Peace -
Peace -
Let's hope for peace,
Let's hope for peace,
Peace -
Let's hope for peace,
Peace -
Let's hope for peace.
(peace, peace, peace, peace…)
Peace -
Let's hope for peace, (peace, peace, peace, peace!)
Peace -
Let's hope for peace,
Peace -
Let's hope for peace.
Oh, John, let's hope for peace
For our children,
For our country,
For our world,
For our future,
Oh, John, let's hope for peace,
Let's hope for peace.
Peace -
Peace, peace,
Let's hope for peace.
Oh, John -
Peace.
Good morning meine damen und herren, this is the peace call.

[John]
What we're really doing is, uh, sending out a message to the world, but mainly youth, especially the youth or anybody that's interested in protesting For peace or protesting against any forms of violence, and we say everybody is getting a bit heady or intellectual about it.
Everybody is talking about peace, but nobody is doing anything about it
Uh, except for a few people
And the things like the, the Golden square marches in London
The end product of it was newspaper stories about riots and fighting, and we did the Bed Event in Amsterdam and the Bag Piece in Vienna just to give people an idea that there’s many ways of protest and this is one of them and anybody could grow their hair for peace or give up a week of their holiday for peace or sit in a bank for peace.
Protest against peace anyway but peacefully
Cuz we think that peace is only got by peaceful methods
and that to fight the establishment with their own weapons is no good
Because they always win, and they've been winning for thousands of years
They know how to play the game violence
And it's easier for them when they can recognize you and shoot you
But they don't know how to handle humour and peaceful humour
and that’s our message really

[Interviewer]
What do you think was the most—biggest success in history in the last 300 years

[John]
I’ve no clue

[Yoko]
Well maybe it's still yet to happen you see
That's why we're trying to do it in other words by very, very peaceful method to bring peace
instead of peace through violence, that’s what we’re trying to do
And if we succeed in that, that's the biggest happening yet.

Y’know, in the last 300 years
Because it’s never been done and nobody has really tried it, you see
And that’s what we’re trying-

[Interviewer]
What would you do in case of the war

[John]
Well, how’d you mean?

[Interviewer]
Well, what would you do immediately if you woke up in the morning and read the newspapers-

[John]
I’d probably-

[Interviewer]
England is in war with France

[John]
I would probably die of fright

[Yoko]
Well, I don’t think that should happen, y’know
You talk as if something is going to happen aside of us, we are all in this we’re all in the same society and in the same world and everything that happens to us is our responsibility like, um, any violence going on in the world is just a symbol of all the violent atmosphere that is in this world, you see like, um, when the Nazis persecuted the Jewish people, that wasn’t only Hitler that did it, or Germany that did it, it’s just a symbol of everybody in the world who had a feeling for persecution for Jews, you see
So we share everything, so that’s not gonna happen. If there’s war suddenly, then that’s our fault

[Interviewer]
So what do you think about the behaviour of Austria, Austrians and Germans during the second world war, don’t you think that they’re a little bit more responsible than the others?

[John]
No, not particularly

[Yoko]
No, not particularly no, the whole world it’s the whole world was really aware of it and if the journalists, and the eh, communication media of those days were really aware of their responsibilities as well, and um, reported everything correct, you know, which is almost impossible I know, but as much as possible, and a the whole world was aware of its responsibilities, it could have been stopped, I’m sure

[John]
Well, we know that, erm, Britain and a couple other countries waited quite a long time before making a decision about what to do, i’m not quite sure, the fact, like Czechoslovakia, they could’ve stopped it earlier, but they waited until it was on their doorstep, y’know, that involves their money or their territory-

[Interviewer]
There’s a very special – that is voted best counted

[John]
No, I don't think so.

[Interviewer]
Voted by the French, for instance.

[John, Yoko Ono]
Oh, come on, the French?
Honestly-

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