Anti War _Vietnam_

Give Peace a chance - 

 

Written by John Lennon 
Released in 1969

Ev'rybody's talking about

Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism

This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m

All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance

C'mon

Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers

Sinisters, Banisters and canisters

Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes

And bye bye, bye byes

All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance

Let me tell you now

Ev'rybody's talking about

Revolution, evolution, masturbation

Flagellation, regulation, integrations

Meditations, United Nations

Congratulations

All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance

Ev'rybody's talking about

John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary

Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper

Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer

Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna

Hare, Hare Krishna

All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance

What is the message behind this song?

The song refers to Vietnam and how many Americans felt that they should stop the fighting and just leave.

Jhon Lennon thought that war is not worth the lives that are being wasted on a battlefield.  And If people were to give peace a chance, maybe things wouldn't be so brutal and chaotic and all people can live in happiness and love, as equals.  Everyone deserves a chance. To sum up, John Lennon is stating that war is only creating harm, and if we give peace a chance it will become a better solution.