I'm 62 years old now and Eve of Destruction is still the most powerful song I've ever heard. It still sends a chill down my spine and leaves a lump in my throat knowing mankind will never be at peace until we've wiped ourselves out.
Same here my friend. I’m not in my 60s by any means. I’m 20.. but with current world things going on rn in 2022. I’m ripe age for drafts. Will they just draft people Willy nilly or will they wait until drafts are required? Idk. I’m scared. Still.. this song speaks wonders. Just like the song says. If the button is pushed, there will be no running away. I ain’t the most religious person, but I pray the button ain’t pushed and I pray I can keep my youth without being drafted. Only time can really tell I suppose.
I was about 14 years old the first time I heard this song. Vietnam was building up to be a full scale War, the Middle East was boiling over, Communist China was a terrible threat, Russia nearly came to a Nuclear War with us just a couple years earlier, and in a few years I was going to have to register for the Draft. It was truly a scary time in history and this song opened our eyes up to the reality of our own mortality. These lyrics were burned into my mind and I still remember them word for word 58 years later. Thank you Barry McGuire for waking me up!
Dear Victor, just in case you haven't noticed (but I believe you did) we're on the brink of a full-scale World War 3, the Middle East is boiling over, Communist China is a terrible threat, Russia is threatening with nuclear war, and to compound matters we're on the brink of planetocide with a ravenous climate crisis and a 6th wave of mass extinction. Have we changed?
And it's happening again, This song was out during the Vietnam War but hopefully we don't have World War 3 that is being pushed to happening. Keep FAITH 🙏🙏🙏🙏
At 70, this song has retained the very same bite it did when I first heard it on the radio in my dad's car as he and I were going somewhere together. Having been a soldier in the second world war, and reading about what was going on in Vietnam, I realized many years later that the lyrics terrified him about what I was about to face. This song, along with others to come, and certain movies as well, created the climate I grew up to be who I am. It woke me up.
This song was so relevant in the sixties and is still so relevant today... nothing has changed. Theres an old saying that goes "a man who cant remember his past can never create a better future".
I am 65 now. This is 49 years after the song came out and it still is one of the most powerful songs to ever be recorded. Woodie Guthrie would have been proud.
This song seems to be timeless. It was written in the 1960's but seems to deliver a message for today and may live on to send its message in the future. It becomes apparent we really never learn from the past. We go on and keep making the same mistakes 'over and over again, my friend'.
Yes we definitely are oh, no doubt about it. But if I try to tell anyone my very well educated very well-thought-out sibling tells me I'm having delusions. Frankly I'm on the Eve of Destruction
yes its very current, the dude singing the song is full of fear and panic his friend says they are not on the eve of destruction. Very current be the friend with steady hands calm.... not the fear filled Karen singing the song.
I am 57 y.o. today (2023) and have never been in the army. I am born and grew up in (West-)Berlin under protection of US, Britisch and French troops. Thanks for protecting our freedom. After the wall came down 1989 I though the world will turn peaceful - I was wrong 😢, it is the same sad world. I fear we are closer than ever to a new world war. Ukraine , Israel .. what will be next (China / Taiwan, North- and South-Korea)? I don't want to imagine. BTW: for 20 years I was in contact with a Vietnam Veteran, he was drafted 1968, I was 2 years old in the year 1968, he was 18. Sadly he died 2017, but I am grateful for his friendship and what he told me about the war and all the horror he had to endure as a young man. Rest in Peace, Ken and thank you for all. We learned nothing...
I’m 20 and man. With the shit going on in the world today… I feel you. I’m just the type of age for drafts and just like the song says. If the button is pushed.. there ain’t no running away.
Amen Barry McGuire. What a God inspired song. Barry is a devout Christian with a heart of gold. We first knew him for his lovely NCMinstrels sing, "Green Green". Hugely popular everyone enjoyed. As a 1963 smash hit it paved the way way for the arrival of the Beatles tour of the world in 1964. We still need people like Barry who's bravery, heart, strength and creativity keep we Boomers goin.
I'm 65 and this song is more relevant now than back in its day. God help us. Old school. That was the way, we fought n cried n prayed together. For one another. Thanks for the song!
From 1965 God bless those that died in the Vietnam war, and every war. I still get chills hearing this song. And bodies floating even in the Jordan River. Written 55 years ago. How relevant even today . Why haven't we learned that war is not the answer. That's greed. We are suppose to Love each other. Work together to better mankind. Yes Judgement day is soon. What will be your excuse when you stand before the Holy one on Judgement Day.
Am not afraid to stand before God as i didn't start or take part in anyways. MAKE LOVE NOT WAR. us hippies had the right idea the government are brain dead.
mini haha I Was Serving In Vietnam In 1973...And Berrys Song Was Still Being Played. By Other Marine's Black...Caucasian...Mexican American's...Native American's All Races. It Came Back To Me Just A Few Day's Ago With All That's Going On. It's True Some Of The Brass Did End Up In Senate Seats And Are No Doubt Destroying Our Great Nation. This Is Why Our 2nd Amendment Is Very Important. God Bless Stay Safe...It's About To Get Only Worse.
We don't want war, but we DID NOT kick out the leaders that loved money more than Country and more than the young American lives. We will be judged just like the 2 times Israel was judged over their evil leaders. The election is only days and once again an evil man will be elected, and the abomination laws will remain on the books, with more abominations to come, with forced vaxes to all. And the military complex must still make money. The land cries out from the blood. America will be judged. It's too late to elect "good men and woman" there aren't any. They just keep putting more abominations on the law books as legal. We forgot God's ways. Shame on them, Shame on us.
The music, the lyrics,the organ and especially the heartbreaking voice of Berry Mc Guire make the hairs on my arms stand up , We are closer to the eve of Destruction than we were 55 years ago.
I was a child when this song was a hit. It was ahead of its time really. At first it was banned from American radio stations but eventually it was released and what a reaction it received from the public. "Blowin' in the Wind" was considered radical but this song was inconceivably harsh in its lyrics and the angry voice that delivered the message. He was right and everybody knew it. He's still right.
Remember when this song came out and it's soooooo sad how time seems to have stood still and maybe even gone backwards. We NEVER learn do we? God help us all...."Ah you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction..."
Yes we have gone backwards...but also we had so much hope for the future and I'm very disappointed in the present reality..there was more optimism in the '60s.
Watch what you pray for you might get it. God is not to be given directions . And he will give you little you ask for but will give you the strength to do the work. And as stated in the constitution it is our responsibility to control our government . By the people for the people.
been stuck in mine since the 80's, along with a thousand other's. I carry a huge playlists in my head from back in the days before ipods and smartphones. It's weird, I don't remember the lyrics to any of these songs if you asked me to write them down, but play me the first tune to a thousand songs and I'll sing it (quite horribly I might add) word for word.
This song was written in 1964 when we were protesting a tyrannical government. Then the leaders of the movement decided to fight from within. They became members of the government and were seduced into the power and money that it offered. So now a half decade later the battle is still with WE THE PEOPLE who only want to be free. I wish Haight Ashbury was still a point of Freedom and not Nancy's symbol of failure.
Yes, I agree the Left back in the 60's have grown up to become today's establishment. Isn't this ironic?! They really never had any principles -- they just wanted power, or so it seems to me. Disappointing. Same thing all over the world. Look at Rawanda, for example. Cuba.
@@paulbearson And precisely the same thing is already happening with today's Left. The reformers get power and privilege, and they weaponize power and privilege for their own benefit. And the more radical they are, the more cruelly they wield their new power and privilege. Meet the new boss ... same as the old boss. And that's the *best*-case scenario. Audré Lourde wrote, "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." But I say she only drew her conclusion halfway: The master's tools will never build anything different from the master's house.
@@Tindometari You (and Paul) are missing the entire point of the song It was written as an indictment of the Johnson administration's handling of the Vietnam War (the Left) and the Republican switch to a "Southern Strategy" put in full effect just a few years later by Nixon when the Rs took credit for the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts and swapped places with the Dems on race (the right). The Dems had actually reluctantly started moving that way with TRUMAN but old Harry and his protege Hubert Humphrey got hung up on trying to get universal healthcare passed in the late 1940s-early 1950s. As for Vietnam-Truman set the original policy along with Korea-the domino theory-Ike sent the first troops to Vietnam as "advisers" and the first deaths in Vietnam were in the last year of Ike's second term. The point I am trying to make is this song is only seen as blaming one side by people who have closed their minds to actually finding SOLUTIONS to our problems without what you seem to value the most-RAW POWER. Where do these lyrics praise power?: Think of all the hate there is in Red China! Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama! Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, But when your return, it's the same old place, The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace, You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace, Hate your next door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace... Closed minded people of ALL political stripes are the problem
The crazy thing is that this is actually true, listening to the lyrics and when he says “ you don’t believe but we’re on the eve of destruction “ it’s true, we are and nobody is realizing it! Everybody should hear this song, it’s also really good too
@Anglo Commando . You have your head stuck in the sand sir when men are talking peace they are preparing for war. We have never lived in a more dangerous time than right now.
It needs to be played to the only country that destroyed my once prosperous homeland and turned it to a shit hole of fanatics and a factory of ISIS motherfuckers
I remember the 4 shot dead Kent State watch Viet nam on the news every night then it was my turn what a turbulent time Martin Luther King civil rights only thing that has changed name's & faces same dire shit
The courts twist the truth - ease all the regulations Even the President can't pass legislation And police alone can't ease immigration When border wall funding is disintegrating The whole Southern border is just too frustrating And ya tell me over and over and over again my friend Bernie Sanders is the Eve of Destruction. :)
@@CommentorX feel sorry for you friend, cause whenever we finally overcome the eve of destruction trump is causing we will look back at those who supported him and fell sorry for their lost souls
Born in 51.This song came out in 65. It hit like a brick. I was into current events and spent the 50's doing the very effective "duck and cover" in case of an atomic bomb! Oh God help us from ourselves.
This song, and"Where Have All The Flowers Gone" - I was 16 and rode a Triumph , bulletproof then, but get the chills today - STILL remember the lyrics 55 years on!
no it's not prophetic. the world didn't self destruct back in the 60's or 70's we muddled through and survived. much progress was made in civil rights though so that was awesome. we even ended the cold war with Russia and the Berlin wall came down and communism was crushed. of course short attention span Millenials don't know about that and romanticize communism today and are dreaming sweet dreams of another cold war. But it won't happen. North Korea is free! Albania is free! Iran is next.
I am 63 years old. Just pulled out my 45's from years ago and came across this one. Remember it being top 40 and significant. Hence my having the "record". It is now as significant as it was then. Even more so.
This painful yet brilliant song, as relevant today as it was in the 60s, has one thing that stands out after reading these comments. It blazed itself into the minds of good people, who were also extremely literate and have managed to express the pain and sorrow of watching a world of people who are set out to destroy and self-destruct (reading the beautifully written comments on here). The Peter, Paul and Mary song "When Will They Ever Learn" has a similar (if not as powerful) effect on me - (we tried back then, now our generation is despised)....Now I am nearing the end of my personal story, I weep inside for my children and grandchildren....
This was and is one of the best of its time! Another great one is FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH by the Buffalo Springfield!!! I grew up in the sixties and it got pretty tense at times!
A Cold War soldier, trained to face the Soviets for most of my 26 years in.Was a young teen during the Cuban missile crisis. One hardened cynic now at 72.
After 50 years this song suddenly pops into my head. Over and over and over again. So I looked it up on RUclips! (Where else.) Now I am listening to the original recording thinking "this was prescient and prophetic".
I found this song on u tube. I am 71 years old and never heard the words to this song until I found this yesterday. I had heard of the song in the 60's when I was in high school but all the radio stations where I lived banned this song and In the years 2525 and wouldn't play them. I'm a little old to be a crusader now like both of these songs. Just sorry it took me 50 years to get to hear them. Nothing changed much in 50+ years.
Heard this song for the first time what was it? 65? Loved it from that moment on. The song is as prevalent now as wit was 55 years ago. God Bless you Barry.
Wow. Thx. I was a teenager when this song was first released. Im a girl. Lost so many friends in Viet Nam. Now, 60 years later, the same song sees the same situations. We've got to change this. God bless all of life.
Dad used to play this record when i was a kid in the late 80's. Never forgot it. Not because of the music (which is great).. but because of the lyrics (which are powerful)
Thanks to all who liked my comment . war is he'll but for those of us that served during Nam coming home. Was he'll to.I am glad to see today's brothers and sisters in arms get welcomed us ole timers now wear our colors . we also meet all returning .many old song are a repeat of history .ty again an ole recon Nam vet .welcome back to the world . keep keeping on . 16romeo 20 out 👍
2023: all those years since this song came out. I'm in my 70s now and every damn word holds true and may, in fact understate the case of the current world. We didn't learn a bloody thing.
My grandpa turned this song into a hopeful one for me as he pointed out he lived though every single event in the song and the media acted just like the singer. My Grandpa however said that we've lived though all of that and nothing happened.
The 60s were just the beginning of the end. Your grandpa needed to look at the long-term direction of things. Way too much apathy and ignorance from that generation.
Perfect timing. I am about to record/cover this song in my studio and was going over the lyrics to make certain everything fits in today's messed-up world. I'll use St. Paul, Minnesota in the lyrics. If you have any other lyric changes, I'd love to hear them. Thanks, and nice job.
Richard Isley nice, thanks! I don’t think I had any others unless standing for the flag can replace don’t forget to say grace but not sure how to make it rhyme
Sadly 58 years since this song came out and the message still rings true especially now with the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Israel. I just hope and pray that one day we all can stop fighting and come to a sense of world peace
I hate to tell you but money runs the world and war is money. I’m 72 and no longer terrified. We’re all going to be gone soon and so is this world and universe. Be kind and live each day as joyfully as you can.
THIS WAS RELEASED IN 1965 & YOU LISTEN TO THIS SONG & READ THE LYRICS & LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW & IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE DOESN'T IT ?? SCARRY THOUGHT I S N T. I T !!!!!!
First off his name is Barry McGuire not Berry McGuire. A lot of people don't know this but this song was actually banned from the radio stations because it was too radical for its time. Talk about censorship!
While in military school, this would get played every so often over the closed-circuit radio we had. I was too young then fully understand its meaning. I do know that the meaning of the eastern world still has a true ring to this day. To all of those who served, serve and will take this patriotic song to heart and will serve-my greatest thanks. To those I served with either via military school or during my years in JrROTC, it was not just a pleasure and privilege but an honor. Many, many thanks. Semper Fi!
Love it. Plenty of Vietnam vets in the comment section missing the point. I lament your sacrifice comrades, but you fought on behalf of the bad guys. No sugarcoating here. You were the villains.
I remember this when it was first released. So knocking on a bit in years. But it still applies we are on the eve of destruction. Not just from war but pollution. Peace and blessings to all.
Hello all. I bought this 45 when it came out in the 60s. I liked it than. I believed in it than. Now, in 2021, it is still as relevant than, than it is today. 🎇 🎆 ☄ Sure there are others, but not many songs can claim that. Sure, there are some, like Marmalade's, Reflections Of My Life, 💠 🏡, and a handfull of others, but not alot. Oh, there is Ten Years After, I'd Love To Change The World 🌎. I guess that is the way it is. Oh, Kansas, Dust In The Wind, 🏞 🌬 is another one. Well, to all, keep healthy, stay safe. Dave in Sierra Vista AZ
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I'm 62 years old now and Eve of Destruction is still the most powerful song I've ever heard. It still sends a chill down my spine and leaves a lump in my throat knowing mankind will never be at peace until we've wiped ourselves out.
Yep, problem is we are still apes really at heart... but with machine guns. Our natures haven't evolved for all that our intelligence has.
I don’t believe that, some things are better than in 1964, some are worse. Ian, don’t lose hope!
Hope at least your generation get to live in peace until the end because mine clearly won't.
Same age here!! What a song!!??
Same here my friend. I’m not in my 60s by any means. I’m 20.. but with current world things going on rn in 2022. I’m ripe age for drafts. Will they just draft people Willy nilly or will they wait until drafts are required? Idk. I’m scared. Still.. this song speaks wonders. Just like the song says. If the button is pushed, there will be no running away. I ain’t the most religious person, but I pray the button ain’t pushed and I pray I can keep my youth without being drafted. Only time can really tell I suppose.
I was about 14 years old the first time I heard this song. Vietnam was building up to be a full scale War, the Middle East was boiling over, Communist China was a terrible threat, Russia nearly came to a Nuclear War with us just a couple years earlier, and in a few years I was going to have to register for the Draft. It was truly a scary time in history and this song opened our eyes up to the reality of our own mortality. These lyrics were burned into my mind and I still remember them word for word 58 years later. Thank you Barry McGuire for waking me up!
Dear Victor, just in case you haven't noticed (but I believe you did) we're on the brink of a full-scale World War 3, the Middle East is boiling over, Communist China is a terrible threat, Russia is threatening with nuclear war, and to compound matters we're on the brink of planetocide with a ravenous climate crisis and a 6th wave of mass extinction. Have we changed?
And it's happening again, This song was out during the Vietnam War but hopefully we don't have World War 3 that is being pushed to happening. Keep FAITH 🙏🙏🙏🙏
At 70, this song has retained the very same bite it did when I first heard it on the radio in my dad's car as he and I were going somewhere together. Having been a soldier in the second world war, and reading about what was going on in Vietnam, I realized many years later that the lyrics terrified him about what I was about to face. This song, along with others to come, and certain movies as well, created the climate I grew up to be who I am. It woke me up.
Wat a out war pigs black Sabbath , if you ain't heard that , listen to it for goodness sake
We are headed that way
I hear you.
Also 70
Just missed the draft
This song was so relevant in the sixties and is still so relevant today... nothing has changed. Theres an old saying that goes
"a man who cant remember his past can never create a better future".
????? Oh so true...I couldn't have expressed it better...oh my, Truth!
Also; "He who does not learn the lessons of the past, is condemned to repeat them."
Very true, tell me how much has changed?
So true my brother
@@davidwillis7000as they say in another way and place . I heard don't forget were you came or you will find your self in the same place. AA .
Timeless! Could have been written today, in 2023!
Stunning how here in 2020 this 1964 song is STILL relevant. It saddens me. It chilled me then and it chills me now.
I am 65 now. This is 49 years after the song came out and it still is one of the most powerful songs to ever be recorded. Woodie Guthrie would have been proud.
Woodie Guthrie is a useless commie fuck
Are you alive in 2019?
Actually I first heard the song in '65, so that would make it 54 years.
60 years ago, its not a positive that this is so relavant today.
That comment was left 4 years and change ago. So 49 years was accurate.
This song seems to be timeless. It was written in the 1960's but seems to deliver a message for today and may live on to send its message in the future. It becomes apparent we really never learn from the past. We go on and keep making the same mistakes 'over and over again, my friend'.
What we should learn from the past is that hippies were idiots then just as they are now.
Amen
is the picture really you?................very attttractive
So true tell that to Trump
Yes we definitely are oh, no doubt about it. But if I try to tell anyone my very well educated very well-thought-out sibling tells me I'm having delusions. Frankly I'm on the Eve of Destruction
It is so sad that this song is still not just relevant, but current.
Same thing, over and over again. Since I was born. So sad.
just shared it to facebook with a similar comment.
yes its very current, the dude singing the song is full of fear and panic his friend says they are not on the eve of destruction. Very current be the friend with steady hands calm.... not the fear filled Karen singing the song.
You do realise that the day of destruction follows the eve of destruction. So be glad it still only current.
It's not
I am 57 y.o. today (2023) and have never been in the army. I am born and grew up in (West-)Berlin under protection of US, Britisch and French troops. Thanks for protecting our freedom. After the wall came down 1989 I though the world will turn peaceful - I was wrong 😢, it is the same sad world. I fear we are closer than ever to a new world war. Ukraine , Israel .. what will be next (China / Taiwan, North- and South-Korea)? I don't want to imagine. BTW: for 20 years I was in contact with a Vietnam Veteran, he was drafted 1968, I was 2 years old in the year 1968, he was 18. Sadly he died 2017, but I am grateful for his friendship and what he told me about the war and all the horror he had to endure as a young man. Rest in Peace, Ken and thank you for all. We learned nothing...
When the Wall came down I (mistakenly) wrote a friend stating "We are the first generation to know our children will not die in a European war".
I am 70 now and the first couple of seconds of this song still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand.
Wait you are a elder person? Cool
I’m 20 and man. With the shit going on in the world today… I feel you. I’m just the type of age for drafts and just like the song says. If the button is pushed.. there ain’t no running away.
@@reeseiannacone8074 your allegiance will always be your bravery!!
Amen Barry McGuire. What a God inspired song.
Barry is a devout Christian with a heart of gold. We first knew him for his lovely NCMinstrels sing,
"Green Green". Hugely popular everyone enjoyed. As a 1963 smash hit it paved the way way for the arrival of the Beatles tour of the world in 1964.
We still need people like Barry who's bravery, heart, strength and creativity keep we Boomers goin.
The best anti - war, government, corruption, tune of all time. Timeless! Could have been written in 2019.
so true mike....
mike mallery amen
amen
It definitely could be written today. Sort of sad that nothing has changed for the better in 50 or so years.
but it's being written now...yet again
The truck brought me here. One of the most awe inspiring experiences of looking at the last of something just kinda sticks with you, I guess. Go Army.
I'm 70 yrs old and had the urge to hear this song. We had the best music. Thank you so much for this.
100 % great song
100 % history
100 % anti war
100 % truth
100% anti draft
💯 % pure insanity...
Enjoy the F----G madness..many thanxx to Barry Mc Guire
This is literally one of the only old political songs that aged perfectly
TonyExists i like your profile picture
I remember singing this with fellow Coast Guardsmen in 1975. Aboard Coast Guard Cutter Campbell.
Kinda takes new meaning on in the face of the new equalizer- the virus.
@@dove1965 This song made an appearance in the mini series:
Stephen Kings - The Stand
Tobito beg to differ - This song is from 1965 - RUclips it.
I'm 65 and this song is more relevant now than back in its day. God help us. Old school. That was the way, we fought n cried n prayed together. For one another. Thanks for the song!
One of the greatest songs ever written. I don’t think there’s another song that stands the test of time better then this one.
Blowin' In the Wind by Dylan.
From 1965 God bless those that died in the Vietnam war, and every war. I still get chills hearing this song. And bodies floating even in the Jordan River. Written 55 years ago. How relevant even today . Why haven't we learned that war is not the answer. That's greed. We are suppose to Love each other. Work together to better mankind. Yes Judgement day is soon. What will be your excuse when you stand before the Holy one on Judgement Day.
Am not afraid to stand before God as i didn't start or take part in anyways. MAKE LOVE NOT WAR. us hippies had the right idea the government are brain dead.
my faith was shaken in 1999 when my father died on good Friday and what little faith I had left was shattered when my mother died in 2006
@@turionmoonstar5873 olé
mini haha
I Was Serving In Vietnam In 1973...And Berrys Song Was Still Being Played.
By Other Marine's Black...Caucasian...Mexican American's...Native American's All Races.
It Came Back To Me Just A Few Day's Ago With All That's Going On.
It's True Some Of The Brass Did End Up In Senate Seats And Are No Doubt Destroying Our Great Nation.
This Is Why Our 2nd Amendment Is Very Important.
God Bless Stay Safe...It's About To Get Only Worse.
We don't want war, but we DID NOT kick out the leaders that loved money more than Country and more than the young American lives.
We will be judged just like the 2 times Israel was judged over their evil leaders.
The election is only days and once again an evil man will be elected, and the abomination laws will remain on the books, with more abominations to come, with forced vaxes to all.
And the military complex must still make money.
The land cries out from the blood.
America will be judged.
It's too late to elect "good men and woman" there aren't any. They just keep putting more abominations on the law books as legal.
We forgot God's ways.
Shame on them, Shame on us.
The music, the lyrics,the organ and especially the heartbreaking voice of Berry Mc Guire make the hairs on my arms stand up , We are closer to the eve of Destruction than we were 55 years ago.
I was a child when this song was a hit. It was ahead of its time really. At first it was banned from American radio stations but eventually it was released and what a reaction it received from the public. "Blowin' in the Wind" was considered radical but this song was inconceivably harsh in its lyrics and the angry voice that delivered the message. He was right and everybody knew it. He's still right.
Remember when this song came out and it's soooooo sad how time seems to have stood still and maybe even gone backwards. We NEVER learn do we? God help us all...."Ah you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction..."
Yes we have gone backwards...but also we had so much hope for the future and I'm very disappointed in the present reality..there was more optimism in the '60s.
Watch what you pray for you might get it. God is not to be given directions . And he will give you little you ask for but will give you the strength to do the work. And as stated in the constitution it is our responsibility to control our government . By the people for the people.
45 years young and I still sing these lyrics at the top of my voice (and out of tune lol) every time!
Some reason this song is stuck in my head the last few days?
"Run hide fight"Movie..This is the Ending song
No you watched "The Incredible Story Of Rose Island" - its also the ending song^^
Probably becavse yov're jesvs
The Stand?
been stuck in mine since the 80's, along with a thousand other's. I carry a huge playlists in my head from back in the days before ipods and smartphones. It's weird, I don't remember the lyrics to any of these songs if you asked me to write them down, but play me the first tune to a thousand songs and I'll sing it (quite horribly I might add) word for word.
This song was written in 1964 when we were protesting a tyrannical government. Then the leaders of the movement decided to fight from within. They became members of the government and were seduced into the power and money that it offered. So now a half decade later the battle is still with WE THE PEOPLE who only want to be free.
I wish Haight Ashbury was still a point of Freedom and not Nancy's symbol of failure.
Yes, I agree the Left back in the 60's have grown up to become today's establishment. Isn't this ironic?! They really never had any principles -- they just wanted power, or so it seems to me. Disappointing. Same thing all over the world. Look at Rawanda, for example. Cuba.
'half a decade'??! You're referring to "half a century"! And, you got your left and right tangled...
@@paulbearson And precisely the same thing is already happening with today's Left. The reformers get power and privilege, and they weaponize power and privilege for their own benefit. And the more radical they are, the more cruelly they wield their new power and privilege.
Meet the new boss ... same as the old boss. And that's the *best*-case scenario.
Audré Lourde wrote, "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." But I say she only drew her conclusion halfway: The master's tools will never build anything different from the master's house.
Perfect words right now. How much of this country is just boiling mad?? I am!
@@Tindometari You (and Paul) are missing the entire point of the song It was written as an indictment of the Johnson administration's handling of the Vietnam War (the Left) and the Republican switch to a "Southern Strategy" put in full effect just a few years later by Nixon when the Rs took credit for the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts and swapped places with the Dems on race (the right). The Dems had actually reluctantly started moving that way with TRUMAN but old Harry and his protege Hubert Humphrey got hung up on trying to get universal healthcare passed in the late 1940s-early 1950s. As for Vietnam-Truman set the original policy along with Korea-the domino theory-Ike sent the first troops to Vietnam as "advisers" and the first deaths in Vietnam were in the last year of Ike's second term. The point I am trying to make is this song is only seen as blaming one side by people who have closed their minds to actually finding SOLUTIONS to our problems without what you seem to value the most-RAW POWER.
Where do these lyrics praise power?:
Think of all the hate there is in Red China!
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama!
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space,
But when your return, it's the same old place,
The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace,
You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace,
Hate your next door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace...
Closed minded people of ALL political stripes are the problem
The crazy thing is that this is actually true, listening to the lyrics and when he says “ you don’t believe but we’re on the eve of destruction “ it’s true, we are and nobody is realizing it! Everybody should hear this song, it’s also really good too
I was a kid 8 years old when this song played the airwaves Found it on RUclips
Nothing has changed 50 years
Salboss Fisher... Well...Greta Thunberg is !!!
God is in control
@@MrTem68 ...To save us, human beings...well, I'm afraid God is not enough !!!
Ok man chill chill
This seems to apply more today than in the year 1965, when it was a hit.
Unfortunately sir we have no idea how close we get from time to time.
@Mary Smith Thanks for letting us know you're an idiot
thanks for letting all the rest of know we're idiots. Very helpful.
@Anglo Commando . You have your head stuck in the sand sir when men are talking peace they are preparing for war. We have never lived in a more dangerous time than right now.
@@vanessaparker6232 i agree, personally im still a kid and understand all that's at stake nowadays
this song needs to be played again for this generation of all countries to hear .
Amen
It needs to be played to the only country that destroyed my once prosperous homeland and turned it to a shit hole of fanatics and a factory of ISIS motherfuckers
@@omarfthoaib8749 Don't blame us, not our fault the British banking elite use our country as it's fighting force.
@@herbienbrian2 ha ha
I agree but it should be either the Joey Scarbury version or the turtles version
I remember being a kid in the 80s finding this record in my mom's collection and playing it over and over and over again. Loved this song
I remember the 4 shot dead Kent State watch Viet nam on the news every night then it was my turn what a turbulent time Martin Luther King civil rights only thing that has changed name's & faces same dire shit
Human respect is disintergrating……..
The courts twist the truth - ease all the regulations
Even the President can't pass legislation
And police alone can't ease immigration
When border wall funding is disintegrating
The whole Southern border is just too frustrating
And ya tell me over and over and over again my friend
Bernie Sanders is the Eve of Destruction. :)
@Mary Smith God bless, my friend. Jesus is the way.
Read some history,, humans never had any.
@@CommentorX feel sorry for you friend, cause whenever we finally overcome the eve of destruction trump is causing we will look back at those who supported him and fell sorry for their lost souls
Mary Smith I sure can’t wait to go to Hell
2022 and we're at the brink of it again.
Born in 51.This song came out in 65. It hit like a brick. I was into current events and spent the 50's doing the very effective "duck and cover" in case of an atomic bomb! Oh God help us from ourselves.
Hi, who else is listening to this great song in 2019? Lilly
us
The Irish 143
Nothing has changed .
Great Song Lillian !
What an exceptional song, will we ever learn not to destroy outselves? Retired Sgt Canadian Forces.
This song is proof that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
This song, and"Where Have All The Flowers Gone" - I was 16 and rode a Triumph , bulletproof then, but get the chills today - STILL remember the lyrics 55 years on!
most prophetic song of all time
+roz korn zzzzzzzz !
It's not prophetic. We just didn't change in 50 years. Or perhaps we did, but for the worse.
no it's not prophetic. the world didn't self destruct back in the 60's or 70's we muddled through and survived. much progress was made in civil rights though so that was awesome. we even ended the cold war with Russia and the Berlin wall came down and communism was crushed. of course short attention span Millenials don't know about that and romanticize communism today and are dreaming sweet dreams of another cold war. But it won't happen. North Korea is free! Albania is free! Iran is next.
@@oliveeisner8964 Don't really think North Korea is free but I think you overall have a pretty agreeable argument.
@@softan yes i know which is why its also prophetic, hence my comment
Sad in 2019 we haven't progressed too much! Love this song, brings back memories!
Laura I think that should be We Haven't progressed at all
raises the hair on the back of your neck. I'm a Vietnam Vet.
Thank you for your service, hope you gave em hell!
Thank you for your service! 👌🙏😀
WELCOME HOME BROTHER
Thank God you made it home!
thank you so much
I'm 65 and this song has always been one of my all time favorites protest songs. It still has significance.
I am 63 years old. Just pulled out my 45's from years ago and came across this one. Remember it being top 40 and significant. Hence my having the "record". It is now as significant as it was then. Even more so.
I Agree Suzanne Even More So.
This painful yet brilliant song, as relevant today as it was in the 60s, has one thing that stands out after reading these comments. It blazed itself into the minds of good people, who were also extremely literate and have managed to express the pain and sorrow of watching a world of people who are set out to destroy and self-destruct (reading the beautifully written comments on here). The Peter, Paul and Mary song "When Will They Ever Learn" has a similar (if not as powerful) effect on me - (we tried back then, now our generation is despised)....Now I am nearing the end of my personal story, I weep inside for my children and grandchildren....
As powerful today as it was in 1965. Great song, a true classic.
Poignant words. The guy who wrote this is a real poet. He wrote about the world as it was and nothing much has changed. Sad but true.
This was and is one of the best of its time! Another great one is FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH by the Buffalo Springfield!!! I grew up in the sixties and it got pretty tense at times!
2019 - still the same ... will we ever learn!
Nope
Sadly I think your right.
Crying emoji this is so sad
@@Scrampy Sad but True
so sad gamer crying irl throwing up all over the floor everywere losing blood rolling on floor dying right now crying emoji
"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it". It s amazing to see how many people in the world, DON'T.
Kathy : You are so right and it will lead to the destruction of every thing the rest of us fought against.
"Born again." This VERY song paved the way when I was JUST a kid.
Masterpiece ! This great '68 song is still up to date
This song is relevant to our current situation.
A Cold War soldier, trained to face the Soviets for most of my 26 years in.Was a young teen during the Cuban missile crisis.
One hardened cynic now at 72.
Those words could have been written about today. Classic
Amazing that this song is from 1965 and it is still relevant today.
After 50 years this song suddenly pops into my head. Over and over and over again. So I looked it up on RUclips! (Where else.) Now I am listening to the original recording thinking "this was prescient and prophetic".
"If the button is pushed, there is no running away, there'll be no one to save, with the world in a grave."
'nuff said, for those who have ears.
most don't
Snowy you said it.
The last verse to from " You can bury your dead" ----------
Reccent events reminded me of this.
I found this song on u tube. I am 71 years old and never heard the words to this song until I found this yesterday. I had heard of the song in the 60's when I was in high school but all the radio stations where I lived banned this song and In the years 2525 and wouldn't play them. I'm a little old to be a crusader now like both of these songs. Just sorry it took me 50 years to get to hear them. Nothing changed much in 50+ years.
Great oldie in my youth that song had heart today it has just as much even more
Any body listening to this as the riots go on and the U.s descends into chaos
Only some minor changes to the lyrics and... presto, we haven't learned a goddamned thing in 50 years.
This whole crazy world is just too frustrating
Haven’t learned a goddamned thing in 50 years? Try 200 years...
Yeah and it’s all being caused by your username
@@josephg2238 hey ya know that fella epstein, well let's just say the Trump foundation is inviting you to meet him
Heard this song for the first time what was it? 65? Loved it from that moment on. The song is as prevalent now as wit was 55 years ago. God Bless you Barry.
This song is just as accurate today as it was when it came out
100% and here we are in 2024 and still no change
Some songs from the 60s,could of been written for today.Words are timeless.
Wow. Thx. I was a teenager when this song was first released. Im a girl. Lost so many friends in Viet Nam. Now, 60 years later, the same song sees the same situations. We've got to change this. God bless all of life.
peace is remembering that love is the only thing that is real
+JANINE L wronnng !
ok
leapoffaith: When you are being raped and killed by third world "immigrants" be sure to tell them this.
leapoffaith : if Love is real then it only follows that hate must be real as well
This is a song that seems were still in the same situation as we were at in the 60s .we need to find a different way to all get along
Dad used to play this record when i was a kid in the late 80's. Never forgot it. Not because of the music (which is great).. but because of the lyrics (which are powerful)
This song was recorded about 50 years ago and we're still not at the eve of destruction. It's a longer process than that but we're getting there.
So you're telling me that you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction?
We are there. But it is due to much more mundane things than bombs and bullets.
I remember this song very well during the Vietnam War and the words today I associate with the atrocities still in 2020... very very sad .💕
The 60's MUSIC just keeps getting BETTER the older I become, I had s GREAT TIME in the 60's, if only I could go back
Is it just me or does it seem like this song becomes more accurate with each passing year?
Thanks to all who liked my comment . war is he'll but for those of us that served during Nam coming home. Was he'll to.I am glad to see today's brothers and sisters in arms get welcomed us ole timers now wear our colors . we also meet all returning .many old song are a repeat of history .ty again an ole recon Nam vet .welcome back to the world . keep keeping on . 16romeo 20 out 👍
God bless you! ♥️🙏🙏🙏🙏
My grandfather showed me this song when I was a young child. As I grow this song seems permanently relevant
This song should be sung in every rock concert.
I agree
History teaches us that history teaches us nothing. Oh, the weakness of humanity.
2023: all those years since this song came out. I'm in my 70s now and every damn word holds true and may, in fact understate the case of the current world. We didn't learn a bloody thing.
My grandpa turned this song into a hopeful one for me as he pointed out he lived though every single event in the song and the media acted just like the singer. My Grandpa however said that we've lived though all of that and nothing happened.
The 60s were just the beginning of the end. Your grandpa needed to look at the long-term direction of things. Way too much apathy and ignorance from that generation.
I just watched a lady scream at a Walmart employee over hand sanitizer and toilet paper, this song just started playing in my head.
I was just walking down the street in queens today. And a human being followed me and barked like a dog & howled at me for 3 blocks.
@@roofkings1978 As long as The Goof Ball doesn't Put his hands on you or you'll have to make Raw Hamburger of his face!
You All Ready To Meet The Lord Maranatha Come Soon OH! LORD AMEN
Selma Alabama, sane amount of syllables as St Paul Minnesota.
Perfect timing. I am about to record/cover this song in my studio and was going over the lyrics to make certain everything fits in today's messed-up world. I'll use St. Paul, Minnesota in the lyrics. If you have any other lyric changes, I'd love to hear them. Thanks, and nice job.
I've already replaced, "4 days in space" for "1 year in space."
Richard Isley nice, thanks! I don’t think I had any others unless standing for the flag can replace don’t forget to say grace but not sure how to make it rhyme
Sadly 58 years since this song came out and the message still rings true especially now with the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Israel. I just hope and pray that one day we all can stop fighting and come to a sense of world peace
I hate to tell you but money runs the world and war is money. I’m 72 and no longer terrified. We’re all going to be gone soon and so is this world and universe. Be kind and live each day as joyfully as you can.
This song is talking about today. For the record, today is Thursday the 30th of March 2023. Thanks for these.
This iconic tune continues to be applicable even today !!!!
The song is 49 years old with the most powerful lyrics of any recording & the fact is, that, since then nothing has changed in the world.
THIS WAS RELEASED IN 1965
& YOU LISTEN TO THIS SONG & READ THE LYRICS
& LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW
& IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE
DOESN'T IT ??
SCARRY THOUGHT
I S N T. I T !!!!!!
2019 and nothing has changed! And you tell us over and over and over again... You don't believe... Open your eyes! 🙏👍✌🇺🇸
This is. One he'll if a long eve you wake up
Just like the Democrats don't believe Illegal Imigration is Illegal. That is why i live in the Philippines.
First off his name is Barry McGuire not Berry McGuire. A lot of people don't know this but this song was actually banned from the radio stations because it was too radical for its time. Talk about censorship!
@Rodycaz It was banned in New Zealand but that was actually good for sales of the single!
Would be banned today for telling the truth if the censors could get away with it
I'm glad it wasn't banned on the radio in San Francisco. It was #1 on KYA for the entire month of September 1965.
I was 15 when it came out. It was on AM radio all the time. KFIV.
I've been looking for this song for WEEKS!!! I'm so glad I found it.
Only thing that has changed is that you can vote at 18...
The 18 year olds today are empty-headed, snowflake losers.
@@thecatatemyhomework Ok Boomer.
So it's even worse.
@@thecatatemyhomework Quit the sugarcoating- tell us how you really feel....
@@robertsmith8734 ln some aspects, yes- Take heart; history will always repeat itself, good and bad.....
Yes, we are on the eve of destruction.
One of my dad's favorite songs, he was born in 1953 and I know exactly how he feels in 2021
This song is never OUT-OF-DATE!
US Army (1970-1977/1978-2004)
Can't believe I came here from somebody's story about going out to get some milk
While in military school, this would get played every so often over the closed-circuit radio we had. I was too young then fully understand its meaning. I do know that the meaning of the eastern world still has a true ring to this day. To all of those who served, serve and will take this patriotic song to heart and will serve-my greatest thanks. To those I served with either via military school or during my years in JrROTC, it was not just a pleasure and privilege but an honor. Many, many thanks. Semper Fi!
And just like that this song has become relevant again.
I been saying this singer has everything in this song that's happening in today's world. I remember this song from way back.
Sharon Husby and it is getting closer every day
Love it. Plenty of Vietnam vets in the comment section missing the point. I lament your sacrifice comrades, but you fought on behalf of the bad guys. No sugarcoating here. You were the villains.
I remember this when it was first released. So knocking on a bit in years. But it still applies we are on the eve of destruction. Not just from war but pollution. Peace and blessings to all.
You are right Jacqueline, It's A Scary Thought.peace and blessing to you also.
We listened to this in school today I'm in year eight and it is well deep
Hello all. I bought this 45 when it came out in the 60s. I liked it than. I believed in it than. Now, in 2021, it is still as relevant than, than it is today. 🎇 🎆 ☄ Sure there are others, but not many songs can claim that. Sure, there are some, like Marmalade's, Reflections Of My Life, 💠 🏡, and a handfull of others, but not alot. Oh, there is Ten Years After, I'd Love To Change The World 🌎. I guess that is the way it is. Oh, Kansas, Dust In The Wind, 🏞 🌬 is another one. Well, to all, keep healthy, stay safe. Dave in Sierra Vista AZ
This song is timeless, because it describes the seemingly unchanging human condition. Too bad for us. We were such a promising species.