Child Of Our Times chords by Barry Mcguire

Child Of Our Times:Barry McGuire.
#72 on BB Hot 100 on DUNHILL Records
in 1965.

INTRO: A D

#1.
A
Take your first look around and see the world
    D
you're coming into.
  A                 D
Ah, have a good cry, I sympathize with you.
  G          Gbm   G
Ah, forever gone is your serenity for the fleeing
       Gbm       G
fawn there's no sacred tree, they'll try to make
       Gbm
hypocrisy of your heredity.
  G           Gbm      G
So, choose your views most carefully, the future's
      Em          A
hope is on what you turn out to be.

CHORUS:
D          G          A
Child of our times, child of our times, product
  Bm  D
of our society.
Bm            G        Bm
What will you grow up to respect..tell me what will
      G
you grow up to protect?
Bm        G         A
In your burning, turning mind, you are your own worst
D
enemy.


INTERLUDE: G Gbm Em D

#2.
A
Every minute you're alive you're that much closer to
D
death.
  A                   D
So, try to make the most of each precious breath.
     G            Gbm
Ah, don't wave banners, you don't believe, parasite.
    G           Gbm
You'll have to discover your own wrong and right..
   G            Gbm
just color your perspectives, black and white.
    G          Gbm
They'll label you weird, but that's all right.
    G        Em
They'll thank you in the end, after they've seen
  A
the light.

CHORUS:
D          G          A
Child of our times, child of our times, product
  Bm  D
of our society.
Bm            G        Bm
What will you grow up to respect..tell me what will
      G
you grow up to protect?
Bm        G         A
In your burning, turning mind, you are your own worst
D
enemy.


INTERLUDE: G Gbm Em D

#3.
    G            Gbm
Ah, the heroes of the past were all good guys but the
G             Gbm
leaders of the next war no one will memorize.
G             Gbm         G
Only the orphan child will sound the cries of a mistake
         D Gbm
that could never be rectified.
  G               Em       A
I'm telling you now cause you can stop it if you try.

CHORUS:
D          G          A
Child of our times, child of our times, product
  Bm  D
of our society.
Bm            G        Bm
What will you grow up to respect..tell me what will
      G
you grow up to protect?
Bm        G         A
In your burning, turning mind, you are your own worst
D
enemy.

OUTRO:
G   Gb E
Child of our times..



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