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Give Peace a Chance

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Give Peace a Chance

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Two

One, two, three, four

Everybody's talking 'bout

Bagism, Shagism, Dragism,

Madism, Ragism, Tagism,

This-ism, That-ism

'-Ism, '-ism, '-ism

All we are saying

Is: Give peace a chance

(That's all we're saying)

All we are saying is

Give peace a chance

(Yeah! Come on!)

Everybody's talking 'bout

Ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters

Bishops, and fishops, and rabbis, and Popeyes

And bye, bye (bye, bye)

All we are saying

Is: Give peace a chance

(What are we saying? Give peace a chance)

All we are saying

Is: Give peace a chance

(Give it a chance, baby, give it a try, right!)

Let me tell you now

Everybody's talking 'bout

Revolution, evolution

Mass inflation, flagellation

Regulation, integration

Meditation, United Nations

Congratulations!

All we are saying

(Keep talking)

Is: Give peace a chance

(Hey! They can't ban this one)

All we are saying

(Let’s hear it for the West Coast)

Is: Give peace a chance

(Oh let’s! Listen to this, OK!)

Everybody's talking 'bout

John & 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

(Come on, come on, come on)

All we are saying

Is: Give peace a chance

(Let's hear it for the squares)

All we are saying

Is: Give peace a chance

(Let's hear it for the hippies and the Yippies, yay!)

All we are saying

(Come on!)

Is: Give peace a chance

(Let's hear it for people now, yeah!)

All we are saying

Is: Give peace a chance

(Let's hear it for Hare Krishna! Yay!)

All we are saying

Is: Give peace a chance

(Everybody now, come on)

All we are saying

Is: Give peace a chance

(What are we saying, let me hear it)

All we are saying

Is: Give peace a chance

(Everybody now, come on)

All we are saying

(You won't get it unless you want it and we want it now)

Is: Give peace a chance

(Yeah, now!)

All we are saying

(Come together)

Is: Give peace a chance

(Come together, all together)

All we are saying

Is: Give peace a chance

(Can anybody hear me? Yeah!)

All we are saying

(We can get it tomorrow, today)

Is: Give peace a chance

(If you really want it, now, OK! Now)

All we are saying

Is: Give peace a chance

(Yes, yeah!)

All we are saying

Is: Give peace a chance

OK, beautiful!

Yeah, we made it!

Turn the lights off, let's rest!

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