Give Peace A Chance
John Lennon| Original | The Haight Ashbury Experience's New Version |
| GIVE PEACE A CHANCE Two, one two three four 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. | GIVE PEACE A CHANCE Two, one two three four Ev'rybody's talking about business, money, isn't it funny, how money hungry – We as human beings can really be See me giving the industry things That they need to give me in return So I can continue to make music you can learn from listening to I'm missing a few but they'll learn to love it soon to -Just like the rest of you do know that the time is now, don't you, for change people are strange from then to now that has definitely remained the same Who's to blame for the way we let our standards drop or the way we let our hammers cock for all the wrong reasons appeasing our appetite for destruction until we're unable to function yes I'll make that assumption that it's gonna end like that if we don't all take a stance and give Peace a chance. All we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a chance Two, one two three four Put down the guns, knifes Wives -occupy more of your husband's time make love not war, 'cause the time of conclusion is creeping up on us I promise if you can't see that you really got problems Put down the pride, the ego we are the people the power, the answer devour the cancer of selfishness, and greed trust me we're helpless if we lead our future generations down the same path that we have been taken 'cause we have been mistaken so please by all means try other things Fly on a plane,taking a trip to see a friend from a different country 'cause your smart enough to know we're all the same Brain(ck),eyes(ck), nose(ck),fingers and toes(check),knees and elbows(ck), kitten or juevos(ck) so what the hell's all the fighting for Fuck war – I'd rather kill the dance floor use my energy to dance No more fighting, it's time to give peace a chance! All we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a chance. |
