All we are saying is give peace a chance...

watched "US vs. John Lennon" on the tube the other day. made my poor father endure as well *grin*
talk about revisiting one of the greatest minds vicariously, through original black and white clips filmed in 1968/9! and just suddenly developing my own personal clarity into the exact sentiments under layering each song and the 'why-s' Lennon wrote each of his revolutionary period songs the way that he did. if anything, i am even more convinced personal stance and contributions make that incremental (and sometimes monumental) difference. and talk about that collective wave of incrementals... and the pure power it yields over governments.
so i would like you to pause in your journey through cyber space, here. and consider where we would be right now, if more of us had stood up in our individual countries in the late 70s. and so okay, whilst past is past and i was being born then... even more relevantly, today.

"Two, One Two Three Four

Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism
Isn't it the most
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

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, Mastication, Flagelolation, Regulations.
Integrations, Meditations, United Nations, Congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Oh Let's stick to it
Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy smothers, Bob Dylan,
Tommy Cooper, Derek Tayor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,
Hare Krishna
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance"

Live Peace In Toronto, 1969 Album.

happy birthday John... here's to the miracle that is YOU!

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980), was an English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles.
(the above = courtesy of Wikipedia).

Copyrighted to John.. here is THE song:

"Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one."