Serve Yourself Lyrics - Anthology - John Lennon

Intro: 

You say you found Jesus Christ 

He's the only one 

You say you've found Buddha 

Sittin' in the sun 

You say you found Mohammed 

Facin' to the East 

You say you found Krishna 

Dancin' in the streets 

Well there's somethin' missing in this God Almighty stew 

And it's your mother (your mother, don't forget your mother, lad) 

You got to serve yourself 

Ain't nobody gonna do it for you 

You got to serve yourself 

Ain't nobody gonna do it for you 

Well you may believe in devils and you may believe in lords 

But if you don't go out and serve yourself, lad, ain't no room service here 

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It's still the same old story 

A bloody Holy War 

A fight for love and glory 

Ain't gonna study war no more 

A fight for God and country 

We're gonna set you free 

We'll put you back in the Stone Age 

If you won't be like me - get it? 

You got to serve yourself 

Ain't nobody gonna do for you 

You got to serve yourself 

Ain't nobody gonna do for you 

Well you may believe in devils and you may believe in lords 

'But Christ, you're gonna have to serve yourself and that's all there is to it. 

So get right back here it's in the bloody fridge. God, when I was a kid. 

Didn't have stuff like this, TV-fuckin' dinners and all that crap. 

You fuckin' kids are all the fuckin' same! Want a fuckin' car now... 

Lucky to have a pair of shoes!' 

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You tell me you found Jesus Christ 

Well that's great and he's the only one 

You say you just found Buddha 

Sittin' on his ass in the sun 

You say you found Mohammed 

Kneeling on a bloody carpet facin' the East 

You say you found Krishna 

With a bald head dancin' in the street ('Well, Christ, now you're 

being heard') 

You got to serve yourself 

Ain't nobody gonna do for you 

You got to serve yourself 

Ain't nobody gonna do for you ('that's right, lad, you better get that straight 

into your fuckin' head') 

You got to serve yourself ('you know that, who else is gonna do it for you, it 

ain't me I tell you that') 

Well, you may believe in Jesus, and you may believe in Marx 

And you may believe in Marks and Spencer's and you may believe in bloody 

Woolworths 

But there's something missing in this whole bloody stew 

And it's your mother, your poor bloody mother ('she worked for you in the 

back bedroom, full of piss and shit and fuckin' midwives. God, you can't 

forget that awful moment, you know. You should have been in the bloody 

war, lad, and you would know all about it. Well, I'll tell you something.') 

It's still the same old story 

A Holy bloody War, you know, with the Pope and all that stuff 

A fight for love and glory 

Ain't gonna study no more war 

A fight for God and country, and the Queen and all that 

We're gonna set you free 

Bomb you back into the fuckin' Stone Age 

If you won't be like me, you know, get down on your knees and pray 

Well there's somethin' missing in this God Almighty stew 

And it's your goddamn mother you dirty little git, now 

get in there and wash yer ears! 

NOTE: "[This song] was right after Dylan's song [...] "You 

Gotta Serve Someone", you know - the lord, I suppose, you know. 

So then he was kind of upset about that and it was a dialogue, 

you know. In that sense it's fun, I mean you can hear it was 

fun. He wasn't seriously against it. He showed his anger in 

a way but also [...] his sense of humour." (Yoko Ono, 1998)