Give Peace a Chance
John Lennon
Two
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!