“Give peace a chance”

El cantante británico, John Lennon, conocido por su activismo antibélico y por haber formado parte de la emblemática banda The Beatles, escribió “Give peace a chance” (Dale una oportunidad a la paz) en el marco de la guerra de Vietnam, en 1969. Para sorpresa de muchos, esta canción fue interpretada por miles de ciudadanos estadounidenses en la moratoria en Washington, D.C. para presionar a Nixon que terminara la guerra (como se muestra en el video). Letra de la canción:

Two, one, two, three, four

everybody’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

yeah!
Cmon
everybody’s talking about ministers,
sinisters, banisters
and canisters, bishops, and fishops,
and 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
everybody’s talking about
revolution, evolution, masturbation,
flagellation, regulation, integration,
meditation, united nations,
congratulations.
all we are saying is give peace a chance,
all we are saying is give peace a chance

evrybodys talking about
john and yoko, timmy leary, rosemary,
tommy smothers, bobby dylan,
tommy cooper,
derek taylor, norman mailer,
allen ginsberg, hare krishna,
hare, hare
krishna

all we are saying is give peace a chance (*13)