Did the composer of (perhaps) the most secular song ever written, later disavow that song?

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | March 23, 2012 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[NYer]

Ping!

[Thane_Banquo]

Song can easily be modified:

“Imagine there’s no liberals.
It’s easy if you try.
No one to tax us.
No one to tell us lies.
Imagine no more whiners, living off the public’s dime.”

[Tijeras_Slim]

Or the Occupy song...

“All we are saying....
Is give soap a chance....”

[beaversmom]

I like your version, but, unfortunately, me wishing for no more leftists is as equally pie in the sky as John Lennon’s bed ins for peace.

[jakerobins]

I liked Herman Cain’s version “Imagine there’s no Pizza”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DrSEyjBj1w

[SampleMan]

“Imagine” truly is the Left’s anthem.

[I cannot think of a name]

How does that saying go:

if you’re not a liberal in your teens you have a hard heart,

if you’re a liberal in your thirties you have a soft head.

I believe John was well past thirty when he gave the interview (in Playboy as a matter of fact).

[the invisib1e hand]

Did ever disavow the most conservative song ever written: “Revolution”?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

I’ll be danged - I’ve long had Cartman’s view of Lennon (as King of the Hippies) - but this is refreshing. Thanks for posting!

[ROTB]

Eyewitness testimony of where John Lennon is right now:

http://www.freecdtracts.com/testimony/revelation_of_hell_by_7_youths.htm

[SuziQ]

Lennon apparently matured as he aged, as people SHOULD.

[the invisib1e hand]

Did ever disavow the most conservative song ever written: “Revolution”?

[Why So Serious]

No heaven? No hell? No God? If the law of religion does not exist than only the law of man does. Can't you tell that most people are bound more by the law of God than man. Look at the difference between the God fearing people and the people who do not believe in God. Man's laws mean nothing. Prove there is no God and this place gets uglier than you ever could imagine. If God does not exist than we become like every other animal in the jungle that does not know God. And then it becomes survival of the fittest.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Imagine no more whiners, living off the public’s dime.”

LOL!

“I might sa-ay you’re a dreamer
But you’re not the only one...”

[dfwgator]

The most conservative song ever was George’s ‘Taxman.’

[Genoa]

I suppose "Imagine" is the ultimate example. The penultimate is "Superstition" by the 22-year-old sage Stevie Wonder. "When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer. . . ." That's right, Stevie, make your mind the measure of all things! I need a bigger God than that.

[MD Expat in PA]

I do not read, and will not even mention, the magazine in which the interview originally appeared (in 1980)

IMO, it would be very helpful to know what magazine that interview was from.

John Lennon was a bit all over the place in a lot of respects but I think there is some insight from his song Revolution (although I don't consider it the most "conservative" song ever written), I still like it.

Revolution

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
All right, all right

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
For people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
All right, all right
Ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...
You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
All right, all right
All right, all right, all right
All right, all right, all right

[dfwgator]

Perhaps that’s why Yoko had him bumped off.

[Why So Serious]

I believe Churchill said it, ... “if you are not a liberal by the time you are 25 you do not have a heart. If you are not a conservative by the time you are 35 you don’t have a brain!”