"ATTICA STATE" LYRICS, SIGNED BY JOHN AND YOKO LENNON, JOHN; AND YOKO ONO. Printed lyric sheet for their co-authored song, "Attica State," Signed by both, near upper edge. The sheet, a photocopy of the Apple Records stationery on which the song was typed [used during a performance of the song during the taping of the David Frost Show on December 16, 1971]. 1 page, 4to; folds, faint scattered soiling. [New York, 16 December 1971]
"What a waste of human power, / what a waste of human lives, / shoot the prisoners in the towers, / 43 poor widowed wives. . . ." With--Typed statement signed by a witness to the signing of the "Attica State" lyric sheet describing the circumstances surrounding the signing. Soon after John Lennon performed "Attica State" publicly for the first time as part of a rally for White Panther Party founder and Black Panther supporter John Sinclair on December 10, 1971, the FBI began surveillance of Lennon, which did not cease at least until incumbent president Richard Nixon's defeat of George McGovern in November 1972.
