John Lennon - Paul Mccartney

Give peace a chance

Everybody's talking about Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism

Ragism, Tagism, Thisism, Thatism, Ismism

All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance

Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters

and canisters, bishops and fishops and rabbis and popeyes

Bye bye, bye bye

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

Let me tell you now - everybody's talking about

revolution, evolution, masturbation, flagellation,

regulation, integration, meditation, United Nations,

congratulations

All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance

Everybody'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

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Note: "I sort of cheated. The word 'masturbation' was in it but I wrote in the lyric sheet, because I'd had enough of the bannings of all...every bloody record I put out was banned for some reason or another. Even "Walrus" was banned on the BBC at one time, because it said 'knickers'. So I mean I'd been banned so many times all over, that I copped out and wrote 'mastication'. It was more important to get [the song] out than to be bothered by a word, 'masturbation'".

(John Lennon, 1980)