A better version could be found here: Eve Of Destruction (Stereo)
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…
I’m sitting here just contemplatin’,
I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
hand full of senators, don’t pass legislation,
and marches alone can’t bring integration,
when human respect is disintegratin’,
this whole crazy world is just too frustratin’,
…
think of all the hate there is in red China,
then take a look around in Selma, Alabama,
you may leave here for four days in space,
but when you return, its the same old place,
the pounding of the drums, the pride and disgrace,
you can bury your dead but don’t leave a trace,
its your next door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace,
…
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With a few word changes…. here we are again… still.
I once met a drag queen named Eva Destruction.
I’m sorry for that. I’ll just go sit in the corner and think about what I said.
Yup…that was my pre-college anthem. And you say the polished, but soulless, Turtles’ version is better?
Hah! Fie on you, knave!
Since this is ScienceBlogs, how did that hypothesis work out?
Barry, if you must troll, do try to be original. We’re over that.
Now I’m worried — does this mean that sciency perspectives are off-topic?
Of course not, D. C. Any time you get worried, just look at Greg’s banner.
So is or is not Barry’s question appropriate?
Ah..the 60s. I recall the first time it was put on prime-time TV…on Hullabaloo or Shindig or Ed Sullivean maybe performed by the song’s writer Green Beret Sgt Barry McGuire..the set was a post-apolaclyptic junk yard with a couple of VWs and some high tension wires…very prescient of a Mad Max kind of world. Of course the whole family watched gathered around the family TV…And of course the eve of destruction has been postponed,and hopefully so has the next ice-age.
I’ll have you know the Turtles version was released first, and the version you are all fawning over was not by the original writer of the song … just some guy. I will not have disrespect for Flo and Eddy on this web site. Except that one song which shall not be mentioned.
But it is true that the Barry McGuire version makes a better ring tone.
The songwriter is a musical genius named P. F. Sloan:
http://www2.gol.com/users/davidr/sloan/
http://www.myspace.com/pfsloan
As for McGuire, he’s now a born-again Christian, but it seems he still loves to sing the old protest songs.
Also the singing Green Beret was Barry Sadler, not McGuire. Although McGuire had a song called “Green Green”, but it doesn’t count.