Carol Starkey wrote:
" I listened to it last night and indeed the lister whose name I forget
was RIGHT
it was "Happy Xmas Kyoko, Happy Xmas, Julian", I thought John and Yoko were
playing on the concept of instead of wishing Happy Xmas to each other,
they'd say their
own name as a play on words."
I thought it was "Yoko" and "John," too, but this new way of hearing it
makes sense: Julian and Kyoko were their children. Kyoko is Yoko's daughter
with her first husband, Tony Somethingorother?, and Julian, John's son with
his first wife, Cynthia. When the song was recorded, John and Yoko were not
yet the parents of Sean. They were wishing their then-existing kids a merry
Christmas, and a world is which "war is over."
Mary P., thinking of John Lennon today in Madison, WI.
