(J): Now you lads, will you just shout Happy Christmas for us For this tape, eh?
(?): Happy Christmas?
(J): Yeah. Go on. One, two, three.
(All): Happy Christmas!
(J): Thank you. Same to you. Ha, ha. Happy Christmas.
(Yoko): ... Christmas, John, and I see you strolling in Ascot Garden with your wife, Yoko, but well, do you Have any special thoughts at, for Christmas?
(J): Well, Yoko, it is Christmas and my special thoughts, Of course, turn towards eating.
(Y): Ha! Ha! Ha! All right. So, eating. Well, what do you like to eat?
(J): Well, I'd like some cornflakes prepared by Parisian Hands. And I'd like it blessed by Hari Krishna Mantra.
(G): "Yes, have a wonderful Christmas. Have a jolly new year. Make sure that Christmas... ... comes once a year." Yes, Happy New Year. All the best. This is George Harrison saying Happy Christmas. Happy Christmas. Christmas. Christmas. Happy. Happy...
(R): (Singing) Ooh, good evening to you ladies, Good evening to you gentlemen, Happy to be here, Good evening to you gentlemen, I fear, I fear, I fear. Good evening to you one and all I hope you will enjoy The coming sports day of your life Is mama's little boy.
(Y): So, how do you like the garden here?
(J): I think it's simply splendid. I'm overwhelmed by its Sanctuary.
(Y): So, you don't mind these high gates and things and the walls?
(J): Oh, I've always loved the high walls. The Elizabethan high Wall is something I've always loved. You see
(Y): Yes
(J): Lady
(P): (Singing) This is to wish you, a merry, merry Christmas This is to wish you just a merry, merry year This say to wish you just a happy, happy new year This is to wish you a merry, merry, merry new year
(P): I'd like to say that I hope everybody listening to this Has a very happy time at Christmas and has a good, Fortunate, lucky New Year. And a good time to be had by All.
(P): (Singing) "Merry Christmas! Mm, this is to wish you a me-merry, merry Christmas, This is to wish you a ha-ha-happy new year."
(J): How do you see your place in the ...eh...the seventies to Come? We've had the swinging sixties, and I was wondering, Mrs. Lennon, how you Saw your place in the seventies?
(Y): I think it'll be a quiet, peaceful seventies, hopefully, you know.
(J): So you think there's gonna be peace, do you?
(Y): Yes, and freedom.
(J): I see.
(Y): Freedom of mind. And everything.
(J): I see. Really nice.
(Y): Everybody will just be flying around, you know.
(J): Ah, everybody will just be flying around, you see. D'you Understand that?
(Y): The air's so crisp and all that. And just, there's Something about it, very delicate...
(J): (Singing) Deep and crisp and even, Brightly shone the moon that night On the misty cruel. Good King Wenceslas last look out On the feast of....
(Y): ... and it's sort of, ah, like a strange magic, you know, Just slowing down the process of our thinking. Anyway, It's just really beautiful.