Thursday, June 01, 2006

This day in music history.

June 1, 1969, During their bed in for peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, John and Yoko record "Give Peace a Chance". Along with John and Yoko are Tommy and Dick Smothers, Derek Taylor, Murray the K, Timothy Leary, Rabbi Abraham Feinberg, Derek Taylor, Petula Clark, Dick Gregory and members of the Canadian Radha Krishna Temple.
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,
All we are saying is give piece a chance,
All we are saying is give piece a chance
C'mon Ev'rybody's talking about ministers,
Sinister, Banisters
And canisters, Bishops, Fishops, Rabbis,
and Pop eyes,
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
Revoluton,
evolution,
masturbation,
Flagellation,
regulation,
integrations,
meditations,
United Nations,Congratulations
Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary,
Rosemary, Tommy Smothers,
Bobby Dylan,Tommy Copper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer,
Allen Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare Krishna