Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song) Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song) "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that was first released on their 1972 album with Elephant's Memory, "Some Time in New York City". The song addresses the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972 and is one of two on the album that addresses the contemporary Northern Ireland conflict, "The Luck of the Irish" being the other. Lennon had sympathies for the Roman Catholic Irish minority in Northern Ireland and had joined a protest in London on 11 August 1971 that attempted to pressure the British
Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song) Protestant who had lived in Ulster for more than 300 years was [sic] scandalous, naive and even racist. Lines like 'You anglo pigs and scotties sent to colonise the North', 'Repatriate to Britain all if you who call it home' or (worst of all) 'Internment is no answer, it's those mothers' turn to burn' simply weren't worthy of Lennon, especially with his concern with racial problems, and his earlier avowed pacifism. Lennon donated the royalties from "Sunday Bloody Sunday" to the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland. The personnel on the recording were: Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko