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By john lennon and yoko ono
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Okay, yoko
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Peace -
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Peace -
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Lets hope for peace,
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Lets hope for peace,
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Peace -
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Lets hope for peace,
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Peace -
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Lets hope for peace.
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(peace, peace, peace, peace...)
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Peace -
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Lets hope for peace, (peace, peace, peace, peace!)
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Peace -
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Lets hope for peace,
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Peace -
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Lets hope for peace.
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Oh, john, lets hope for peace
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For our children,
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For our country,
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For our world,
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For our future,
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Oh, john, lets hope for peace,
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Lets hope for peace.
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Peace -
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Peace, peace,
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Lets hope for peace.
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Oh, john -
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Peace.
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Good morning meine damen und herren, this is the peace call.
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John: what were really doing is sending out a message to the world, mainly to the
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Youth, especially the youth or anybody really that's interested in protesting for
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Peace, or protesting against any form of violence and we say everybodys getting a
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Bit heavy or bit intellectual about it. everybodys talking about peace, but nobodys
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Doing anything about it, except for a few people, and the things are, the grosvenor
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Square marches in london. the end product of it was just newspaper stories about
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Riots and fightings. and we did the bed event in amsterdam and the bag piece in vienna
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Just to give people an idea, that there's many ways of protest and this is one of them.
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And anybody could grow their hair for peace or give up a week of their holiday for
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Peace or sit in a bag for peace, protest against peace anyway, but peacefully cause we
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Think that peace is only got by peaceful methods and that to fight the establishment
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With their own weapons is no good, because they always win and theyd been winning
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For thousands of years. they know how to play the game violence and it's easier for
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Them when they can recognise you and shoot you. they don't know how to handle
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Humour, peaceful humour and that's our message really.
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Questioner: what do you think was the biggest success in history, about 300 years?
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John: haven't a clue.
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Yoko: well, maybe it's still yet to happen, you see. that's why were trying to do it. in
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Other words, by very, very peaceful methods to bring peace, you know instead of
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Peace through violence, that's what were trying to do and if we succeed in that,
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That's the biggest happening yet in the last 300 years, because it's never been done and
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Nobody has really tried it, you see. and that's what were trying to do.
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Questioner: what would you do in case of a war?
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John: how do you mean?
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Questioner: what would you do immediately if you would wake up in the morning, read the newspapers and they would tell you england is in war with france?
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John: I'd die of fright.
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Yoko: I don't think that should happen. you talk as if somethings going to happen
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Aside of us. we are all in this you see. we are all in the same society and in the same
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World and everything that happens to us is our responsibility, you know. like any
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Violence going in the world is just a symbol of all the violent atmosphere that is in
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The world, you see and when the nazism persecuted the jewish people that wasn't only
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Hitler, who did it or germany, who did it, but just a symbol of everybody in the world
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Who had the feeling for the persecution of jews, you see. so we share everything, so
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That's not gonna happen, if there's war suddenly, that's our fault, you know.
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Questioner: so what do you think about the behaviour of austrian and germans during
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The second world war? don't you think that they're a little bit more responsible
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Than the others?
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John: no, not particularly.
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Yoko: no, not particularly. no. the whole world, if the whole world was really
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Aware of it and if the journalists and the communication media of those days were
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Really aware of their responsibility as well and reported everything correct, you
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Know, well, which is almost impossible, Im sure, but as much as possible and if the
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Whole world was aware of their responsibility, it could have been stopped, Im sure.
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John: well, we know that britain and a few other counties waited quite a long time
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Before they made any decision about what to do. Im not quite sure of the facts, you
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Know, but after czechoslovakia and things like that, they couldve stopped it earlier,
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But they waited until it's on the doorstep, you know, until it involves their money,
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Their territory.
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Questioner: there's a special type of petition that is vetoed by special contents ..
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John: no. I don't think so because...
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Questioner: hitler could have been voted by the french, for instance.
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John: every nation will have a prototype. I think I was out talking to one of the
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Austrian tv guys. I said can you name me one european country which hasn't sort of
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Raped the world and he said austria actually was the only one that didn't attack
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Anybody else. they were always on the defensive side, I don't know whether that's
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True.
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Qustioner: but they were silent at the wrong moment...
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John: okay, that's bad, I agree that silence is bad. but I mean there isn't one european
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Country that hasn't had it's hitler in one way or the other, including britain, in what
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They did to india and south africa, you know.
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Yoko: so lets so back to the future, you know. so that's why were here. we want to
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Talk mainly to the young people all over the world, because those are the people
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Who are going to be the next generation. they're going to be the next world, you
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Know, and we just want to say we are with them. were not preaching or anything like
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That. we want to be with them and were with them and in our way, were just
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Announcing that were open to all invitations or suggestions or anything to work
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For the world peace, you see, and were doing it now, in our own way, which we think is
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The best for us and also the young people have to realise that this is just as bad as
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Before the second world war or right in the middle of it, you know, that everything,
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All the violence that is happening in the world now are our responsibility and if we
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Don't really realise it and immediately start something, action, you know, it's going
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To be bad, you know. and it will be exactly like you said. one morning, we find in the
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Newspaper, find that the whole world is going to disappear, you know.
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Questioner: I agree with you, but don't you see, I mean, it's a fact that by through your
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Behaviour, I think it's okay, but for a lot of people, through your behaviour, to get
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Suspicious. they don't think that this can be correct, people sitting under a
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Tablecloth protesting against wars. they don't think...
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Yoko: okay, before they criticise us, you know, and if they want to criticise us, okay,
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Go ahead, and they should do it in their own way, but do something, you know.
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Questioner: so everybody should throw out his part of hitler out of his soul, then?
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John: yes, yes, we all have it in us. in a way, were saying we want peace and were
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Staying in bed for peace, but Im as violent as the next man, and Im sure yoko is just as
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Violent just as well. were violent people, you know. I prefer myself when Im non-
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Violent. I prefer me friends when they're non-violent. it just makes for easier living
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And if we have to have violence, lets channel it, you know.
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I don't know how, you know, there's other people can work out how to channel it, or
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Give them somewhere to play and kill each other or something. but I don't want to be
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Involved in their violence. I prefer to live in peace, you know.
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Yoko: all you need is courage, you know. you can just go out in the street now and
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Take off all your clothes and just say peace you know and you'll be in the news you
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See. just courage and if everybody gets courage and of course they would,
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Because they would think all right maybe this is a little bit embarrassing thing to do,
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But look at john and yoko they're doing worse, so I can do it, you know.
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That's all were trying to do, you see.
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Questioner: so you're putting courage, also, into the world?
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John: we hope so.
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Yoko: I hope so.
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John: okay.
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Stay in bed!
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John: look there's a fly flitting around. just makes you laugh.
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Yoko: what time is it?
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John: what's the time?
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Yoko: what?
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John: 9:30.good morning. I was saying about bagism,you see, you get in this bag and you
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Jump out the window. next thing you know, you got a policeman on your head. you want tea?
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Yoko: you know what I want, john?
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John: what; what, what, what. oh, give us a chance! you want one before I do. yes, our
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Name got round a lot. could I have room service, please. do you want toast?
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Yoko: just tea. which do you want, coffee or tea?
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John: tea.
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Yoko: tea.
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John: two teas please. yeah, 902 and some toast. yeah, brown toast.
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Good morning. yeah, yeah. I know and some toast. brown toast. yeah. thank you. bye, bye.
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Alright then....
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John: hello, dog. it's beautiful no, no, no. it'll just take a lot of looking after. well
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Think about you, amsterdam. it's a lovely dog, huh.
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Yoko: yes, it's lovely.
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John: thank you very much.
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Visitor: here you are.
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John: thank you. you gonna take him off me now!
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Visitor: yeah, if you don't mind. thank you very much.
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John: I thought you were giving
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Visitor: bye, bye. bye, bye. no, no.
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John: I sort of was under that impression. she gave us the dog and then went away. very nice.
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Yoko: it's rather sort of really swinging though. don't you think so?
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John: the thought of the long haired beatle in the 19th century sanctuary. please
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Stop this nonsense. go home. we don't like people like you. go to a doctor to be
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Normal, you get this? go to a doctor to be normal. were seeing a psychiatrist today,
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So maybe hell fix us up then. bloody marvellous. we don't get through on some level,
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As you notice. was under marijuana. beautiful, beautiful. keep smoking. nothing illegal
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Beautiful, beautiful. hey, those kids are as hard as the real press.
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Yoko: yes, amazing.
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John: amazing. they're just as tough as the real press. very sexy. it's a boy, it's a boy.
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Questioner: why are you staying in bed for 7 days?
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John: ah, because...
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Questioner: well, first of all, let me say congratulations on your marriage and that
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In dutch is gefiliciteerd met je getrouw.
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John: oh, dank u wel, oh, chocolat!
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Questioner: how about explaining this mission you are on at this moment!
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John: well, you start...
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Yoko: well, because we thought of this idea about staying in bed for 7 days for
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Protest against violence in the world.
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Questioner: did you think of it's geographical situation as being the centre of europe?
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John: no, I didn't realise, is it? oh, fantastic! it was magic then, you see, cause the way...
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Questioner: well, they call it the centre of europe. it's an advertising campaign for an
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Airline.
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John: okay, well give us a free ticket and well be all right.
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Various people: stand up! bend over towards us.
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Stand up on your knees, maybe. turn up, turn up on your knees.
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As soon as we can ......(unhearable) ....but we need you here
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John: so, anyway a policeman came in and an elephant jumped on me head, so I said
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What's going on and he said cabbages and the next moment I was on film, yeah.
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Love, peace and bed!not forgetting jam of course.
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Okay, guess now it's over?
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Qustioner: are you cold?
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John: no, no, no!
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Questioner: yeah, music, you know, if you go back to the days of a, of a, lets see, where do we start now, we start with do you love me?
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John: not, not particularly.
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How about that?
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John singing: good bye amsterdam, goodbye.
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Stay in bed,
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For bed-in,
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For peace of the world,
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Stay in bed,
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Grow your hair.
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Grow your hair.
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Okay, good night.
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Now it's time to say good night,
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Good night, sleep tight.
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Now the sun puts out his light.
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Yoko: what a beautiful day it was though, very tiring, though. it's so turning like
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Crazy, you know.
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John: you can say that sort of hot?
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Yoko: grow your hair.
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John: bed peace.
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Yoko: hair peace.
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John: hair peace, bed peace.
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Oh, yeah.
25th March 1969: John Lennon and Yoko On...
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