Punch me.. I'm a hippie. This song *still* resonates 43 years later:

[Cooley Hurd]

...and it applies more today than then. Gaza; Ukraine; Domestic...

[Lochloosa]

1. I'll kick this.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. How could anyone not kick it?

It's as pure as any message could be. The world is massively fucked up, but the message is pure and simple. STOP THE FUCKING VIOLENCE. Now, punch the hippie if you must - I can take a punch.

[Lochloosa]

10. I'll just kick the hippie.

[Cooley Hurd]

11. This hippie can withstand kicks...

[Scuba]

2. Imagine peace.

[Pharaoh]

4. Peace and Love

I Love John an his message.............

[Cooley Hurd]

5. My love for John and Yoko has eclipsed for four decades!

...and I'm not yet 50!

[Enthusiast]

29. I am all for it....still.

[mucifer]

6. I was expecting a song titled "Punch Me I'm a Hippie"

My brain needs to work better.

Anyway, K and R for the song.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. I need to write and record that song...

Now that you mention it, it's a *potentially* great song title!!!

[deutsey]

8. Just Gimme Some Truth

[Cooley Hurd]

9. Yes!!!

I LOVE when anyone riffs on my OP's like this! Awesomeness!!!!

[deutsey]

12. Your OP deserved a good follow-up riff.

Thanks for it!

[redwitch]

13. Indeed it does.

XO

[murielm99]

14. That sums up the whole movement for me.

It is what we were about during the sixties and early seventies. And there are many out there who still fear the message.

[lob1]

15. Back in my hippie days, this was one of my favorite anti-war songs.

[DrewFlorida]

24. Awesome song, thank you for posting it!

[progressoid]

16. ...

[Cooley Hurd]

17. Awesome collage!!!!

[progressoid]

19. Made it a few years ago for a DU in memoriam post of December 8th.

[Lifelong Protester]

38. My sister photographed this memorial

with rose petals all around the word Imagine. I have it in my office and love it. K & R.

[delrem]

18. A lot of people say this is the best song/poem in modern history.

It is simply beautiful.

[CubicleGuy]

20. Every time you listen to Imagine by John Lennon...

... a kittie cat owned by a frequent visitor to FreeRepublic.com dies.

[Enthusiast]

37. Frequent visitors to FreeRepublic.com don't like kittehs.

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[rickyhall]

21. Once, in court I was accused of being a follower of John Lennon

like it was a bad thing. This hippie's been kicked a few times.

[dgauss]

22. K&R for the combination of simple, true and beautiful.

[DrewFlorida]

23. In my opinion, the greatest song of all-time!

[AndyTiedye]

25. The Hippies Were Right About Pretty Much Everything

[Boomerproud]

28. Yes they were.

I'm ashamed that the message and the values and the reforms have been ignored or denigrated by the revisionists.

[freshwest]

26. Mine:

We took the message to D.C. and L.A. I miss that spirit.

[Warpy]

27. This is the version we need today, with a mixed Jewish/Palestinian Arab chorus

Clinton is flat. Liel's voice is glorious, though.

[cascadiance]

34. The older generations there could learn a lot by listening to this younger generation of kids!

What a heart warming alternative view of what could be there... I hope that those kids in that chorus have held firm to the feelings they had singing that that day over the years! I'm sure they've felt challenged since then.

[ReRe]

30. K&R

Tremendous thread, Cooley Hurd. We needed that.

[tecelote]

31. Imagine. This song is always in my mind when someone says Imagine in any context.

I always thought the hippies and the whole back to earth movement would come back. But, it seems materialism has proven stronger than Mother Nature.

Love lost and war won.

[Roy Rolling]

32. John Lennon

He spoke for all of us. And when soldier John Kerry stood up in opposition to Vietnam, nothing could derail the peace movement.

[radiclib]

33. Can I add to the pile?

I like that it's subtitled for the 'hard of hearing'. Can't hurt.

[Ishoutandscream2]

36. Beautiful. Thank you.

[Ishoutandscream2]

35. War Is Over. If You Want It.

[Terra Alta]

39. Guess I'm a hippie, too.

Wasn't born until 1981 but this is one of my all-time favorite songs. RIP John Lennon.

It's sad that over 40 years after this song was released, we are still no closer to world peace than we were then. If anything, we are even farther from it. Maybe I'm being cynical but I don't think there will be true peace on earth until there are no longer any humans on it.

[jimruymen]

40. end occupation

saw the news today, oh boy

[grahamhgreen]

41. WTF is Obama doing in the Middle East?

[ActiveTen28]

42. Such a beautiful song. The message has been lost on so many.

Good video, too.