Eve of Destruction - guitar chords and comments
Lyrics without distraction HERE
The L.A. based cult singer & songwriter P.F.Sloan (Philip Gary "Flip" Schlein, 1945 – 2015) 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
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