Eve of Destruction - chords, tab and comments
At the bottom you'll find a link to the complete lyrics.
The L.A. based cult singer & songwriter P.F.Sloan wrote this in 1964, at the time parts of the American population started to be concious, and Barry McGuire - a former member of "The New Christy Minstrels" - grumbled it to the top of the charts in 1965 for the whole wide world to listen ... but not too many did. Rats; almost 50 years later, you could rearrange a few lines, change a few occations, swap events and the conclusion of the song is still cruelsome valid. In fact, in 1999 Sloan rewrote it, McGuire rerecorded it ... and the world reneglected it.
G G/F# C D
the eastern world it is exploding
G Bm C D
violence flaring and bullets loading
G G/F# C D
you're old enough to kill but not for voting
G Bm C D
you don't believe in war but what's that gun you're toting
G Bm C D
and even the Jordan river has bodies floating
G Em Bm Am G Bm Em
but you tell me over and over and over again my friend
C D G
that you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction