Happy Christmas (War Is Over) is a song written
by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It was published on 6th December 1971
on the B-side of a record, with, on the A-side, Listen the snow is falling, written by Yoko Ono. Happy Christmas (War Is Over) is one of
the most important and best known Christmas songs.
The authors
recorded this song as a protest against the war in Vietnam and they wanted to
attract interest on it. The war had started in 1955, sixteen years before and
it would continue until 1975.
In that war the USA used chemical weapons such as napalm, a substance, containing petrol, which can cause serious burns. This incendiary mixture killed a lot of people and it made the war incredibly bloody.
