Letter To Eve chords by Pete Seeger

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
A minorAm                    E MajorE     A minorAm
Oh Eve, where is Adam, now you're kicked out of the garden?
A minorAm                    D7D7     E MajorE
Oh Eve, where is Adam, now you're kicked out of the garden?
A minorAm                 D7D7
Been wanderin' from shore to shore, now you find there's no more.
A minorAm                 E MajorE    A minorAm
Oh-oh Pacem in Teris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Heiwa!

Verse 2:
A minorAm                       E MajorE     A minorAm
Don't you wish love, only love, could save this world from disaster?
A minorAm                 D7D7     E MajorE
Lo-ove, only love, could save this world from disaster?
A minorAm                      D7D7
Don't you wish love could end the confusion, or is it just one more illusion?

Oh-oh Pacem in Teris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Heiwa!

Verse 3:
A minorAm                         E MajorE     A minorAm
Well, if you want to have great love, you've got to have great anger.
A minorAm                       D7D7     E MajorE
I-if you want to have great love, you've got to have great anger!
A minorAm                  D7D7
When I see innocent folks shot down, you just want me 'shake my head and frown.
A minorAm                 E MajorE    A minorAm
Oh-oh Pacem in Teris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Heiwa!

Verse 4:
A minorAm                          E MajorE     A minorAm
If you want to hit the target square, you better not have blind anger.
A minorAm                           D7D7     E MajorE
I-if you want to hit the target square, you better not have blind anger!
A minorAm               D7D7
Or else it'll be one more time the correction creates another crime!
A minorAm                 E MajorE    A minorAm
Oh-oh Pacem in Teris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Heiwa!

Verse 5:
A minorAm                       E MajorE     A minorAm
Well, if music could only bring peace, I'd only be a musician.
A minorAm                    D7D7  E MajorE
If music could only bring peace, I'd only be a musician!
A minorAm                     D7D7
If songs could do more than dull the pain, if melodies could only break these chains!
A minorAm                 E MajorE    A minorAm
Oh-oh Pacem in Teris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Heiwa!

Verse 6:
A minorAm                   E MajorE    A minorAm
Oh Eve Eve, go tell Adam, We've got to build a garden.
A minorAm                  D7D7     E MajorE
Oh E-----ve, go tell Adam, We' got to build a new garden.
A minorAm                   D7D7
We' got to get aworkin' on abuildin' of a decent home for all o' God's children!
A minorAm                 E MajorE    A minorAm
Oh-oh Pacem in Teris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Heiwa!

Verse 7:
A minorAm                E MajorE    A minorAm
Oh Eve, you tell Adam, next time he asks you.
A minorAm                  D7D7   E MajorE
Yes Eve-Eve, you tell Adam, next time he asks you.
A minorAm                D7D7
He'll say baby it's cold outside, What's the password to come inside?
    A minorAm                 E MajorE    A minorAm
You say Oh-oh Pacem in Teris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Heiwa!

Verse 8:
A minorAm                 E MajorE    A minorAm
Oh-oh Pacem in Teris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Heiwa!
A minorAm                 D7D7   E MajorE
Oh-oh Pacem in Teris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Heiwa!
A minorAm                   D7D7
Four thousand languages in this world, means the same thing to every boy and girl
A minorAm                 E MajorE    A minorAm
Oh-oh Pacem in Teris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Heiwa!