Give Peace A Chance

two, one two three four

Ev'rybody's talking about

Bagism, Madism, Dragism, Shagism, Ragism, Tagism

This-ism, that-ism

ism ism ism

All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance

its goin' great

Everybody's talkin' bout'ministers,

sinisters, banisters and canisters,

bishops and fishops and rabbis and pop eyes,

and byebye, byebyes

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 [keep talking] 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, Bobby Dylan,

Tommy Cooper, Derek Tayor, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,

Hare Hare Krishna

All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance

back to "Songs of Vietnam Era"

I chose this song because the lyrics were interesting and it had to do not only with the Vietnam War but with a lot of the issues of the 60's. This song's message is talking about how everybody in America is fed up with the Vietnam War. Also, the third verse talks of people who helped in the peace movement and the counterculture which were anti-war groups. The second verse is talking of all the changes and trends that have followed the Vietnam War and the first verse talks about the organized religions that have protested the Vietnam War. The lyrics express the feeling that people have to try to give peace a try if they want the Vietnam War to be over and people need to listen to one another if peace is to gained. This song is mostly a hippie song that has to do with giving people hope that Vietnam will end and the soldiers will come home. Hippies were all over this song, singing it in marches and making it a chant of some sort.