Eve Of Destruction Chords by Barry McGuire

[Start]

[Intro]

[Verse]
D                   G     A        
■ The Eastern world it is explodin'
D                G       A      
Violence flarin' bullets loadin'
       D                  G           A     
You're old enough to kill but not for votin'
          D                         G        A            
You don't believe in war but what's that gun you're totin'
    D                         G      A       
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'


[Chorus]
    D          
But you tell me
G        A        D             Bm7    Bm
Over and over and over again my friend ■ 
        G            
How you don't believe
A                   D           G
We're on the eve of destruction ■


[Verse]
A D                             G         A  
■ Don't you understand what I'm trying to say
D                            G       A    
Can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today
       D                        G          A   
If the button is pushed there's no runnin' away
            D                       G          A    
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave
       D                        G                  A  
Take a look around you boy it's bound to scare you boy


[Chorus]
        D      
And you tell me
G        A        D             Bm    
Over and over and over again my friend
        G            
How you don't believe
A                   D           G A
We're on the eve of destruction ■ ■


[Verse]
D                              G    A          
■ Yeah my blood's so mad feels like coagulatin'
D                     G             A
I'm sittin' here just contemplatin' ■
D                          G        A         
I can't twist the truth it knows no regulation
D                         G    A          
Handful of senators don't pass legislation
D                       G     A          
And marches alone can't bring integration
D                     G              A
When human respect is disintegratin' ■
D                         G        A          
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'


[Chorus]
        D      
And you tell me
G        A        D             Bm    
Over and over and over again my friend
        G            
How you don't believe
A                   D          
We're on the eve of destruction


[Inst]
    G A D                             G         A    
And ■ ■ ■ think of all the hate there is in Red China


[Verse]
D                          G     A      
Then take a look around to Selma Alabama
D                         G            A    
Ah you may leave here for four days in space
D                            G        A    
But when you return it's the same old place
D                             G         A       
The poundin' of the drums the pride and disgrace
        D                  G             A    
You can bury your dead but don't leave a trace
          D                      G               A        
Hate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace


[Chorus]
D              
And you tell me
G        A        D             Bm             
Over and over and over and over again my friend
G                 A                   D          
You don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
          G             A                   D           G D
No no you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction ■ ■


[End]