Anti-Vietnam Song

We have started a new topic called Woodstock in Social Studies. We were given the task to choose a song that is related to the Vietnam War. There were 2 options given to us to blog about so I chose to do Give Peace a Chance which was released in 1969, the songwriter was John Lennon who was one of the members of a famous well-known band, The Beatles. In this post I will be explaining the meaning behind the song and why it was made and sang. This was sung at Woodstock.

Give Peace  a Chance

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

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

The meaning behind the Song:

He left a big message for everyone when writing the song and singing this song so we can take something from it and possibly change it and preventing it from happening in the future. It is an anti-war song, John Lennon's message towards us was that war does not solve our problems. There are other alternatives to approach the situation and different ways of dealing with the problem without bloodshed and hatred, war is just a place to put your lives and risk and wasting them for no good. If everyone gives peace a chance people will start to have better experience in their lives and get all the enjoyment they can get because why risk your life, you get one life so make the most of it and not wasting them on war.