Happy Christmas War is Over Lyrics
My all time favorite Christmas song is without a doubt Happy Christmas (War is Over) by the late great John Lennon. I know this song from way back, when television was still mostly black and white (at least at was at our house).
I first watched it as a kid. The song came out in the early seventies, so I must have been an early teenager when I first heard it. It made a big impression on me back then, and to this day it still manages to touch a nerve.
Because in all it’s corny simplicity this song says it all, by asking a simple question: what have you done for anybody this year. And to top it all off, it’s a great chant as well.
Happy Christmas (War is Over) Lyrics
So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
Ans so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let’s stop all the fight
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
Ans so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
War is over over
If you want it
War is over
Now…
The lyrics are based on a campaign in late 1969 by John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, who rented billboards and posters in eleven cities around the world that read: “WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It) Happy Christmas from John and Yoko”.
