John Lennon (October 9, 1940)

 Yer Birthday

John Lennon

October 9, 1940  -  December 8, 1980

You say it's yer birthday

It ain't my birthday yet, man

They say it's your birthday

We're gonna have a good time

I'm glad it's your birthday

Happy birthday to you

Yes we're going to a party party

Yes we're going to a party party

Yes we're going to a party party

I would like you to dance

(birthday)

Take a cha-cha-cha-chance

(birthday)

I would like you to dance

(birthday)

Dance

I would like you to dance

(birthday)

Take a cha-cha-cha-chance

(birthday)

I would like you to dance

(birthday)

Dance

You say it's yer birthday

It ain't my birthday yet, man

They say it's your birthday

We're gonna have a good time

I'm glad it's your birthday

Happy birthday to you

--  Lennon  /  McCartney 

     22 November 1968

     ("White Album")

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Speak, Memory: One of the two arrests we made that day hadn't gone well. After putting the car in the basement garage at the Federal Building, I'd walked up the underground ramp to the street, intending to buy my second pack of Marlboros of the day from the liquor store up the next block. Stepping inside, I looked down at a stack of the early edition of a paper which isn't even around any longer, lying on the counter below the cash register with a banner headline in 48-point type: JOHN LENNON SLAIN.  Fuck; I thought, and then said it out loud.  

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