Power To The People Lyrics

[Richard]

DT didn’t get what I posted in the chat box, so I’m posting the lyrics for her and other people who do not know this song. ;) 

Power To The People
John Lennon

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Say you want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet
And out on the street

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

A million workers working for nothing
You better give 'em what they really own
We got to put you down
When we come into town

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

I gotta ask you comrades and brothers
How do you treat you own woman back home
She got to be herself
So she can free herself

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
Now, now, now, now

Oh well, power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Yeah, power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on


Here's the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wos-dDxpJlQ

[Astrojewels]

Good song Richard, my favorite by john Lennon has to be ‘imagine’ I just love that song. The weird thing is that people have the power already, but 99% just don’t know how to use it…

[DreamTime]

Too many repeats of the phrase: "Power to the people."

[Richard]

Karen,

Yes you’re right about us already having power but I still like the song. I love the song Imagine too.  

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0

[AndrewX]

Hi everyone, 

Saw your light on... thought I'd drop in...

My favorite John Lennon songs are respectively... 

Imagine,  NobodyToldMe, MindGames, ComeTogether and Working Class Hero
 

Nobody Told Me

Everybody's talking and no one says a word
Everybody's making love and no one really cares
There's Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs
Always something happening and nothing going on
There's always something cooking and nothing in the pot
They're starving back in China so finish what you got

Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed -- strange days indeed

Everybody's runnin' and no one makes a move
Everyone's a winner and nothing left to lose
There's a little yellow idol to the north of Katmandu
Everybody's flying and no one leaves the ground
Everybody's crying and no one makes a sound
There's a place for us in the movies you just gotta lay around

Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama

Everybody's smoking and no one's getting high
Everybody's flying and never touch the sky
There's a UFO over New York and I ain't too surprised

Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama
 

Come Together

Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please

He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola
He say "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together right now over me

He bag production he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together right now over me

He roller-coaster he got early warning
He got muddy water he one mojo filter
He say "One and one and one is three"
Got to be good-looking 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together right now over me

Mind Games

We're playing those mind games together
Pushing the barriers planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the Mantra peace on earth
We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil
Doing the mind guerrilla
Some call it magic the search for the grail

Love is the answer and you know that for sure
Love is a flower you got to let it grow

So keep on playing those mind games together
Faith in the future out of the now
You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind
Yeah we're playing those mind games together
Projecting our images in space and in time

Yes is the answer and you know that for sure
Yes is surrender you got to let it go

So keep on playing those mind games together
Doing the ritual dance in the sun
Millions of mind guerrillas
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel
Keep on playing those mind games together
Raising the spirit of peace and love
(I want you to make love, not war
I know you've heard it before) 

Working Class Hero

As soon as your born they make you feel small
by giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
Working Class Hero is something to be
Working Class Hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and despise a fool
Till you're so fu*king crazy you can't follow their rules
Working Class Hero is something to be
Working Class Hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years
then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
Working Class Hero is something to be
Working Class Hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religon, sex and T.V.
and you think you're so clever and classless and free
but you're still fu*king peasents as far as I can see
Working Class Hero is something to be
Working Class Hero is something to be

There's room at the top I'm telling you still
but first you must learn how to smile as you kill
if you want to be like the folks on the hill
Working Class Hero is something to be

Yes , A Working Class Hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
 

Pity he's gone, he'll always be missed

[DreamTime]

Welcome back AndrewX!!! Missed you.

Yes, those are good songs, but I love the song 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps.'

Had to put it on since I was talking about it...

[Mercy Now]

Oh Gosh DT I love  While My Guitar Gently Weeps too, but isn't that George Harrison's baby?  My favorite of Lennon's is Imagine and I love Revolution and the way he did Twist and Shout. Oh yeah  I want To Hold your Hand is great too. Most of their pre 1967 stuff is without Tavistoc influence.

[DreamTime]

Maybe so, MN, but it was on the Beatles album and I was just mentioning Beatles songs...

[Astrojewels]

Hey Andrew,

How have you been? Have not heard from you in yonks….

Yes MN, I love that one too..

[Sily]

AndrewX - I have missed you and your pictures and your interesting life!  Welcome back!!

I wasn't going to post a J.L. lyric, cuz this is Richard's appreciation thread, but now that others have, hehe... here's my fav John Lennon song:

Vid here... and now I will sing for you!  :D

Standing in the dock at Southampton
Trying to get to Holland or France.
The man in the mac said you’ve got to go back,
You know they didn’t even give us a chance.

Christ! You know it ain’t easy,
You know how hard it can be.
The way things are going,
They’re going to crucify me.

Finally made the plane into Paris,
Honeymooning down by the Seine.
Peter Brown called to say,
You can make it OK,
You can get married in Gibraltar near Spain.

Christ! You know it ain’t easy,
You know how hard it can be.
The way things are going,
They’re going to crucify me.

Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton,
Talking in our beds for a week.
The newspapers said, say what’re you doing in bed,
I said we’re only trying to get us some peace.

Christ! You know it ain’t easy,
You know how hard it can be.
The way things are going,
They’re going to crucify me.

Saving up your money for a rainy day,
Giving all your clothes to charity.
Last night the wife said,
Oh boy, when you’re dead you don’t take nothing with you but our soul –
Think!

Made a lightning trip to Vienna,
Eating choc’late cake in a bag.
The newspapers said,
She’s gone to his head,
They look just like two Gurus in a drag.

Christ! You know it ain’t easy,
You know how hard it can be.
The way things are going,
They’re going to crucify me.

Caught the early plane back to London,
Fifty acorns tied in a sack.
The men from the press said me wish you success,
It’s good to have the both of you back.

Christ! You know it ain’t easy,
You know how hard it can be.
The way things are going,
They’re going to crucify me.