It's So Hard, annotated draft lyric sheet for 'Imagine', 1971 (pen & ink on photocopy)

A rare set of John Lennon's early photocopied and annotated lyric sheets for his groundbreaking album Imagine, 1971 the early copies of typed drafts showing variations to the released tracks and a few of Lennon's handwritten annotations, were given to journalist Ray Connolly when he visited John and Yoko at Tittenhurst Park in July, 1971; ten lyric sheets, each a photocopy of a typed page It's So Hard, twenty lines in four verses originally typed on blank paper, these lyrics, annotated in Lennon's hand in black ballpoint pen with various revisions to the text as he thought about the song's wording; the original typed song title Sometimes I Feel Like Going Down, deleted by Lennon and annotated with a handwritten replacement It's so hard..; the first verse showing a number of variations and amendments: the fifth line with Lennon's handwritten amendment, replacing the word So of the repeated refrain But It's So Hard with the word really; also a variation to the released version is found in the third line which in this instance is: You got to give and in the released version is: You got to be somebody; John's additional handwritten amendments to the typed text are found in the second verse where the last word of the third line You Got To Think is deleted by Lennon and replaced with FEEL SOMETHING, and the word SO in the repeated refrain in the fifth line It's SO Hard is overwritten and replaced with really; an amendment Lennon duplicates in the penultimate line of the last verse