"HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER)"....LIVE JAZZ DUO....and so it begins again.....

"Happy Xmas""God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"1:12 "Last Christmas" 2:40 "Silver Bells" 4:33
Preston Murphy-Bass
Michael Stark-Guitar
Thank you Karen @ the Little Goose!!!
.......With this song, Lennon became the first Beatle to release a Christmas song after the breakup of The Beatles two years prior.He said he wrote it “because I was sick of White Christmas,” but this song also serves as a powerful protest song against the Vietnam War. This song came on the heels of two years of activism by John Lennon & Yoko Ono. They had already been spreading the message “WAR IS OVER! If You Want It – Happy Christmas from John & Yoko” on posters and such around the world.Backing vocals on the song are also provided by the Harlem Community Choir — a powerful choice of using children to deliver an anti-war message.