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“Give Peace a Chance” was released in protest against the war in Vietnam. The song became an anthem of the anti-war movement—it was even sung by participants of the 500,000 strong march on Washington D.C. in November of 1969.
Lennon and Ono were well-known members of the anti-war movement. They eve...
[Intro]
Two
A-one, two, three four, ugh
[Verse 1]
Everybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism
[Chorus]
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
[Verse 2]
(Come on)
Everybody's talking about
Minister, Sinister, Banisters and Canisters
Bishops, Fishops, Rabbis, and Pop Eyes, Bye bye, Bye byes
[Chorus]
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
[Verse 3]
(Let me tell you now)
Everybody's talking about
Revolution, Evolution, Masturbation, Flagellation, Regulation
Integrations, mediations, United Nations, congratulations
[Chorus]
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
[Verse 4]
Everybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare Hare Krishna
[Chorus]
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
[Outro]
(Come on, come on, come on)
All we are saying is give peace a chance
([?])
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Let's hear it for the hippies and the yippies)
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Let's hear it for the people, now)
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Let's hear it for Hare Krishna)
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Everybody now, come on)
All we are saying is give peace a chance
([?])
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Everybody now, come on)
All we are saying (It won't [?] unless you want it and we want it now) is give peace a chance
All we are saying (Come together) is give peace a chance
(Come together, all together)
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Can everybody hear me? Yes!)
All we are saying (We can get it tomorrow or today) is give peace a chance
(Unless you want it now, I'll get it now)
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Yes, yes)
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Okay, beautiful, yes
We've made it!)
Give Peace a Chance was written by John Lennon.
Give Peace a Chance was produced by Yoko Ono & John Lennon.
Plastic Ono Band released Give Peace a Chance on Fri Jul 04 1969.