Credited on the record as John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band With Elephant's Memory And Invisible Strings.
John Sinclair
1972 · Apple SVBB 3392 · USA
- Artist
- John Lennon & Yoko Ono
- Credited on the record as
- John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band With Elephant's Memory And Invisible Strings
- Title
- John Sinclair
- Release
- Some Time in New York City
- Year
- 1972
- Label
- Apple # SVBB 3392
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- John Lennon
- Genre
- Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]
John Sinclair
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: "It ain't fair, John Sinclair / In the stir for breathing air / Won't you care for John Sinclair? / In the stir for breathing air / Let him be, set him free / Let him be like you and me / They gave him ten for two / What else can the judges do? / Gotta.. .set him free... / If he'd been a soldier man / Shooting gooks in Vietnam / If he was the CIA / Selling dope and making hay / He'd be free / They'd let him be / Breathing air, like you and me"
Notes
John Sinclair, side two. A plea for the release of poet John Sinclair, serving ten years for two marijuana joints. Produced by John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Phil Spector. UK issue Apple PCSP 716. [From Discogs and Wikipedia]