The Eve Of The War

The Eve Of The War easy guitar chords by Jeff Wayne

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  • Intro 1
    No 
    one 
    would 
    have 
    believed 

    In 
    the 
    last 
    years 
    of 
    the 
    nineteenth 
    century 

    That 
    human 
    affairs 
    were 
    being 
    watched 

    from 
    the 
    timeless 
    worlds 
    of 
    space 


    No 
    one 
    could 
    have 
    dreamed 

    that 
    we 
    were 
    being 
    scrutinized 

    As 
    someone 
    with 
    microscope 
    studies 

    creatures 
    that 
    swarm 
    and 
    multiply 

    in 
    drop 
    of 
    water 

    Few 
    men 
    even 
    considered 
    the 
    possibility 

    of 
    life 
    on 
    other 
    planets 

    And 
    yet, 
    across 
    the 
    gulf 
    of 
    space 

    Minds 
    immeasurably 
    superior 
    to 
    ours 

    Regarded 
    this 
    Earth 
    with 
    envious 
    eyes 

    And 
    slowly 
    and 
    surely, 

    they 
    drew 
    their 
    plans 
    against 
    us 


    Interlude 1





    Interlude 2





    Solo 1





    Interlude 3





    Solo 2





    Interlude 4



    Verse 1


    At 
    midnight, 
    on 
    the 
    12th 
    of 
    August 

    huge 
    mass 
    of 
    luminous 
    gas 
    erupted 

    from 
    Mars 
    and 
    sped 
    towards 
    Earth 

    Across 
    two 
    hundred 
    million 
    miles 
    of 
    void, 

    invisibly 
    hurtling 
    towards 
    us 

    Came 
    the 
    first 
    of 
    the 
    missiles 

    that 
    were 
    to 
    bring 
    so 
    much 
    calamity 
    to 
    Earth 

    As 
    watched, 
    there 
    was 
    another 
    jet 
    of 
    gas 

    It 
    was 
    another 
    mis
    sile, 
    starting 
    on 
    its 
    way 

    Interlude 5


    Verse 2


    And 
    that's 
    how 
    it 
    was 

    for 
    the 
    next 
    ten 
    nights 

    flare, 
    spurting 
    out 
    from 
    Mars 

    Bright 
    green, 
    drawing 
    green 
    mist 
    behind 
    it, 

    beauti
    ful 
    but 
    somehow 
    disturbing 
    sight 

    Ogilvy, 
    the 
    astronomer, 

    assured 
    me 
    we 
    were 
    in 
    no 
    danger 

    He 
    was 
    convinced 
    there 
    could 
    be 

    no 
    living 
    thing 
    on 
    that 
    re
    mote, 

    forbidding 
    planet 

    Chorus 1
    "The 
    chances 
    of 
    anything 
    coming 
    from 
    Mars 

    are 
    million 
    to 
    one" 
    he 
    said 

    "The 
    chances 
    of 
    anything 
    coming 
    from 
    Mars 

    are 
    million 
    to 
    one" 

    But 
    still 
    they 

    Verse 3
    (come) 

    Then 
    came 
    the 
    night 
    the 
    first 
    missile 

    approached 
    Earth 

    It 
    was 
    thought 
    to 
    be 
    an 
    ordinary 
    falling 
    star 

    But 
    the 
    next 
    day 
    there 
    was 
    huge 
    crater 

    in 
    the 
    middle 
    of 
    the 
    Com
    mon, 

    and 
    Ogilvy 
    came 
    to 
    examine 
    what 
    lay 
    there 

    cylinder, 
    thirty 
    yards 
    across, 

    glowing 
    hot, 

    and 
    with 
    faint 
    sounds 
    of 
    movement 

    coming 
    from 
    with
    in 

    Suddenly 
    the 
    top 
    began 
    began 
    moving, 

    rotating, 
    unscrewing 

    And 
    Ogilvy 
    feared 
    there 
    was 
    man 

    in
    side 
    trying 
    to 
    escape 

    He 
    rushed 
    to 
    the 
    cylinder 
    but 
    the 
    in
    tense 
    heat 

    stopped 
    him 
    before 
    he 
    could 
    burn 

    himself 
    on 
    the 
    metal 

    Chorus 2
    "The 
    chances 
    of 
    anything 
    coming 
    from 
    Mars 

    are 
    million 
    to 
    one" 
    he 
    said 

    "The 
    chances 
    of 
    anything 
    coming 
    from 
    Mars 

    are 
    million 
    to 
    one" 

    But 
    still 
    they 
    come 

    Chorus 3
    "Yes, 
    the 
    chances 
    of 
    anything 

    coming 
    from 
    Mars 

    are 
    million 
    to 
    one" 
    he 
    said 

    "The 
    chances 
    of 
    anything 
    coming 
    from 
    Mars 

    are 
    million 
    to 
    one" 

    But 
    still 
    they 

    Outro 1
    (come) 


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