Anti - Vietnam Song: Woodstock

After finishing the topic of Beatlemania, we moved on to "Woodstock." Woodstock was a music festival that was held on August 15-18, 1969. Concurrently, this is also when the Vietnam War was still occurring. The goal of the concert was to provide a chance for people to escape into music and spread a message of unity and peace. The concert lasted for a total of 3 days, and an approximate number of 500,000 people attended the Woodstock concert. Despite having 500,000 people, only two died. One died of a drug overdose, and the other died of an accident. He was sleeping in a sleeping bag under a tractor, however, the driver did not know he was there and accidentally ran him over. 

The crowd at Woodstock also experienced some bad weather along with muddy conditions, lack of food and water. Overall, the concept was still peaceful despite those challenges. 

Moving on, we were tasked to analyse songs that promoted the anti-war movement. I chose the song "give peace a chance" by John Lennon. 

What message the song sends: I believe that the message of the song was obtaining peace and ending wars. The song referred to the Vietnam War and how numerous Americans felt that they should stop the fighting.

Song Lyrics: 

Ev'rybody'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

C'mon
Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers
Sinisters, Banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes
And 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
Ev'rybody's talking about
Revolution, evolution, masturbation
Flagellation, regulation, integrations
Meditations, United Nations
Congratulations

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer
Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare, Hare Krishna

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance