HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER). (Ultimate Mix, 2020) John & Yoko Plastic Ono Band + Harlem Community Choir

JOHN LENNON. GIMME SOME TRUTH. THE ULTIMATE MIXES. The Very Best of John Lennon.

HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER)
Happy Xmas, Kyoko, Happy Xmas, Julian
So this is Xmas and what have you done
Another year over and a new one just begun
And so this is Xmas, I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one, the old and the young
A very Merry Xmas and a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one without any fear

And so this is Xmas (War is over)
For weak and for strong (If you want it)
For rich and the poor ones (War is over)
The world is so wrong (Now)
And so happy Xmas (War is over)
For black and for white (If you want it)
For yellow and red ones (War is over)
Let’s stop all the fight (Now)
A very Merry Xmas and a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one without any fear

And so this is Xmas (War is over)
And what have we done (If you want it)
Another year over (War is over)
A new one just begun (Now)
And so happy Xmas (War is over)
We hope you have fun (If you want it)
The near and the dear one (War is over)
The old and the young (Now)
A very Merry Xmas and a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one without any fear
War is over if you want it, war is over now

written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono

John: When we stick posters around saying, 'WAR IS OVER if you want it', what we’re trying to promote is an awareness in people of how much power they have – and not to rely on the government or leaders or teachers so much that they’re all passive or automatons. They have to have New Hope. Everybody’s looking for goals and answers; the youth especially. What we’re trying to tell them is that “YOU are the goal. Nobody on earth can do it for you. Whatever it is you want, you must do it yourself.” - John Lennon, 1969

Yoko: Dear Friends, the 'WAR IS OVER! if you want it' campaign was once a tiny seed, which spread and covered the Earth. John and I believed it helped many people to stop their wars. Since then, every 'WAR IS OVER! if you want it' campaign has impacted the world as powerfully as the first one. Start yours tomorrow, and you will see that it spreads and covers the world very fast and, meanwhile, makes you a Small Pebble Person. Small Pebble People are people who know that small pebbles, when they’re dropped in the ocean, will immediately affect the ocean of the whole wide world. Don’t throw a big stone. It scares people and creates repercussions. Just drop a small pebble. We’ll keep doing it. Together. That’s how the world gets changed…by Small Pebble People. We change, and the world changes.Happy Holidays. I love you! - Yoko Ono Lennon, 2019

Video from The John Lennon Video Collection (1991), Remastered 2020.
Executive Producer: Yoko Ono Lennon
Produced & Directed by Gerard Meola
Camera: Marco North & Paul Gibson
Editor: John LaSala
Photographs of John, Yoko & Sean in the snow: Nishi F. Saimuru © Yoko Ono Lennon
Contains excerpts from the film 'Imagine' directed by John & Yoko, cameraman: Bob Fries.
Music Video @ Yoko Ono Lennon

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[mundanechimp]

as the snail slowing moves towards me I can only think about the relationships, the children and the friends I have made over my stay. as I look out seeing the collapsing sun travel towards the earth I can only hear this tune and think was it worth it.

[Catskills]

When he was assassinated, me and countless of others of all ages, race and faiths, gathered upon the Dakota Apartment house and sang this. There wasn't any reported crime in NYC during that weekend. Even the criminal mindset stopped in memory of this wonderful soul -- John Lennon. He is extremely missed but never forgotten.

[bagelsurvivor]

It's Christmas Eve 9 billion years in the future, everyone is gone. I stand at the edge of the world and off in the distance I see a shape. A snail, the same snail I've been running from all these years. The sun sets as our final chapters come to a close as I welcome his embrace...

[whalen]

I look over at the heat death of the universe as I recall all the adventures I took over the millennium’s. I reflect on my family, friends, my community aimlessly at the void of space. On my side is the only thing I have left after all of what has happened, Slowly coming after me at a snails pace. I finally accept it’s my time to go while crying over my experiences. I slowly walk to the snail and put my hand out to accept death itself. After all this time, the snail touches me and I slowly fade away from this universe leaving the snail all alone. Leaving it to be the only living thing in the dying universe.

[JuneLynn]

42 years ago this is still one of the most beautiful Christmas songs....miss you John ❤:

[markb]

For years as a child, I never knew what Yoko and John whispered at the beginning. Some years later I finally found out they were wishing their children Kyoko and Julian (each from previous marriages) "Happy Christmas". Sean was not even born yet.

[yohanehakurei]

Hundreds of years have passed since the fight has started, 2.9 million are gone, the world we former lived on is gone, only a shell of it's former glory, and as goku stares into the last spongebob. He sheds a tear of both joy and sadness, the spongebob, acknowledging his fate. Opens his arms in a hug-like form. Goku has officially completed his long-lasting mission, and falls to the ground due to exhaustion. As he lays he weeps, for all the spongebobs killed and the mental toll it took on him. He lays like this for all eternity.

[sharigreen]

My Mom liked this song, may she rest in peace. She wasn't keen on the Beatles, but acknowledged they were very talented.

[golamhadi]

It's the year without any numbers. It's been so long and so tiring, that I have stopped keeping record of it. I have loved a thousand times and lived a thousand generations. Wealth became pointless towards the end, when time is all I had. I have seen hundreds of my own generations turn to ashes. Everything around me is ceasing to exist in this warm temperature, yet I feel just fine. Everything the human kind tried so hard to keep alive is long gone. I don't know when is the last time I saw a human, I don't even know when is the last time I saw a living thing. The deal was that my best friend and yet my worst enemy will always spawn near me and will forever try to reach me to end this torture for both of us. Yet, it's been hundred of years since I last saw him. Has he forgotten me? Or maybe did not make this long life that I have lived. How could it be? Everything else was right according to the deal, how could the most important thing be wrong? I have been sitting and enjoying the sun come closer and closer to Earth. It's almost as if I can touch it now. I have seen it change colour and I witnessed the horror people were put to due to the warmth. It's as if my humanity has been snatched away. Or it has been killed. I have seen thousands of love of my life pass away and I could not do anything to stop it. I still try to remember the first one. But it's been so long I don't even remember her face or her voice. I don't even know if she really existed or I am just trying to make her up as something nice that made me feel human.
I think I see it, my friend. There he is. He was always there. Maybe just tired. Maybe he had things to do as well, just like me. His slow body is trying it's best to make it to me. I reach my hand to him, accepting both of our inevitable fate. It touches me and I feel a sort of comfort, as the temperature around be starts to warm up. I can feel again. Not just the warmth, but also my heart. I can feel alive. This is it. The thing I have tried my best to stay away from, is finally giving me the peace which I seeked. Thank you my friend.

[barrackobama]

The immortal snail made me fell in love with this song

[mollyf]

John Lennon. Gone way to soon. We will never forget him.

[trimalchiolegien]

It's around 50 Years now this message was sent.

How people still can hate each other, can't stand together as one, can't stop fighting each other.
So I say as like my idol:
WAR IS OVER
IF WE WANT IT
merry christmas from mankind
May our words be heard. 💙
Rest in peace John ☮

[bre-ck]

We miss you so much, John. Thank you forever for all the magnificent songs you've created.

[evdawg]

You’ve outlived everything and everyone you know. Life is pointless. You can’t remember any of your lovers or your family. It’s been thousands of years. You see the snail approaching you. But instead of running, you accept it. You’ve lived a good life but all good things come to the end.

[carmelinasperanza]

I was 16 years old when John Lennon died . I was a Beatles fan but I considered that success in life is not always a dream. Musik is in my life a way to think about destiny of human life with dear memories, like the emotional songs of our John Lennon.

[carl_anderson]

One of the greatest Christmas songs ever made.

[ujanbhattacharjee]

Who else are listening to this song on the Christmas Eve.

[henry]

December 8, 1980 in New York City, The World lost a legendary advocate of Peace and one of the best singer and composer of all time. Merry Christmas John in Heaven 🎀🎁🎄

[vanessahill]

A man taken too young & tragic just because he was a beautiful soul & wasnt ashamed to voice out loud what others only wish they had the guts to do so, like Imagine, 2 of the most beautiful songs written, continue to R.I.P. John <3

[connorlayman]

RIP John Lennon. Listening to this song because he died 40 years ago today at age 40. Thanks for this wonderful music. We all miss you dearly to this day.💕💕💕💕