Give Peace A Chance – Plastic Ono Band (official music video HD)

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

A one, two, a one two three four

Everybody’s talking ‘bout Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism Ragism, Tagism, This-ism, That-ism ‘ism, ‘ism, ‘ism

All we are saying is give peace a chance (That’s all we’re saying)

All we are saying is give peace a chance (Yeah! Come on!)

Everybody’s talking ’bout Ministers, sinisters, banisters and canisters Bishops and fishops and rabbis and Popeyes and bye bye (Bye bye)

All we are saying is give peace a chance

(What are we saying? Give peace a chance)

All we are saying is give peace a chance (Give it a chance, baby, give it a try. Right!)

Let me tell you now Everybody’s talking ‘bout Revolution, evolution, mass inflation, flagellation Regulation, integration, meditation, United Nations Congratulations!

All we are saying (Keep talking) Is give peace a chance (Hey! They can’t ban this one)

All we are saying (Let’s hear it for the West Coast) Is give peace a chance (Oh let’s! Listen to this. OK!)

Everybody’s talking ‘bout John & 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 (Come on, come on, come on)

All we are saying is give peace a chance (Let’s hear it for the squares)

All we are saying is give peace a chance (Let’s hear it for the hippies and the yippies. Yay!)

All we are saying (Come on!) Is give peace a chance (Let’s hear it for people now. Yeah!)

All we are saying is give peace a chance (Let’s hear it for Hare Krishna! Yay!)

All we are saying is give peace a chance (Everybody now, come on)

All we are saying is give peace a chance (What are we saying, let me hear it) All we are saying is give peace a chance (Everybody now, come on)

All we are saying (You won’t get it unless you want it and we want it now) Is give peace a chance (Yeah, now!)

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 anybody hear me? Yeah!)

All we are saying (We can get it tomorrow, today) Is give peace a chance (If you really want it, now. OK! Now)

All we are saying is give peace a chance (Yes. Yeah!)

All we are saying is give peace a chance OK, beautiful! Yeah, we made it! Turn the lights off, let’s rest! Written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono

“All we are saying is give peace a chance” –

The song was written by John & Yoko during their weeklong ‘BED-IN’ advertising campaign for Peace, held in Montreal, Canada in 1969. The film features the original 31 May 1969 recording of ‘Give Peace A Chance’ and includes John & Yoko appearing at the National Peace Rally in Bryant Park, New York on 22 April 1972

plus additional protest footage from the era. It concludes with the hundreds of thousands of shocked fans who, after John’s sudden death, gathered for simultaneous vigils in Liverpool, London, New York and all around the world on 14 December 1980, to sing “Give Peace A Chance” and remember John. http://www.johnlennon.com

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Give Peace A Chance

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The Plastic Ono Band

Writers

John Lennon

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Drawsome Drawer 1 week ago (edited)we need this song now more than ever189 REPLY View 6 replies

Music Master 1 week agoWe need to be singing this in the streets in every city right about now.272 REPLY View 17 replies

Theodore Quiroz 1 week agoanybody watching while all these Protests and Rioting going on..137 REPLY View 4 replies

Mista StealYaBooks 1 week agoWe will march down Washington in 2020 playing this again.229 REPLY View 17 replies

kyle jordan 1 week agowe need this now more than ever with everything that’s happening in minneapolis, #georgefloyd peace and love to beat racism.144 REPLY

Tristian Sanchez 1 week agoWe need someone with the balls john had to lead something like this today74 REPLY

Mario Valletta 1 week agowe all know George Floyd’s death was uncalled for… but do we really need to riot over it and ruin city’s by using violence? Gandhi and MLK managed to change history by giving peace a chance!121 REPLY View 14 replies

Brian Griffin 1 week agoSadly John’s message hasn’t been heard 50 years later.65 REPLY

Chad Herron 1 week agoWhy is this song so perfect right now??? Think about it.59 REPLY View reply

Lonneke 5 months agoThis hits different now544 REPLY View 17 replies

Logan Stevens 1 week agoTimes like these I really miss John Lennon. ☮️33 REPLY View 3 replies

IMaSandwhich 1 week ago (edited)Wouldn’t be a bad idea if we all go out and sing this I could see this being very useful and working Plus if we do want to do this we have to be heard so let’s share this video and tag it on all platforms till we finally get a harmonic peaceful protest we deserve66 REPLY View 11 replies