Anti Vietnam War Song - Social Studies

For today's topic in Social Studies, we had to learn about Woodstock. Woodstock was a concert that happened for three days straight, held at the 15th to 18th of August 1969. They wrote a song dedicated to the war that was happening at the same time in Vietnam. Here is the song that I chose:

Title: Give Peace a Chance 

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

The main purpose or message of this song was to questions to the people of Vietnam who are in war. To ask them if the choice of keeping the war going is the right thing to do. The song also states that they should give peace a chance rather than causing more chaos and getting other innocent people involved. Instead of fighting each other, they should talk and understand one another.