@The Frumguy — That’s so precious!
I love Liverpudlian accents — watching Help! really “helped” me to appreciate ’em. I saw a video on YouTube of Sir Paul encouraging the the Israeli audience to sing with him (“Atah shiru iti”) and then I smiled amusedly as the audience sang “Hey Jude” with Israeli accents…. 😀
@Hanab — Remember, Yoko Ono helped write that song, so if anything goes wrong, we could theoretically just blame her, right? 😛
I wouldn’t fret over the lyrics anyhow. 🙂 I think John just wanted the world to be a peaceful place, and his proposed solution was to eliminate all factors of this current world that he felt were causing unpeaceful controversy. If we could live in a world where people didn’t hurt others in the name of their bogus other religions (like Islam), I’d be pretty cool with that.