Save the World (George Harrison song) unsuccessful as the Beatles' work during the "Magical Mystery Tour" era. Although he concedes that the scarcity of environmental songs in the early 1980s, relative to the 1990s, might be a mitigating factor, Inglis dismisses the song as a "hopelessly vague indictment of the perils we are inflicting around the globe", adding: "The problem with such a general attack is that it lacks focus and, therefore, force." Alan Clayson views Harrison's conservationist sentiments as "laudable" and considers the track to be a protest song in the mould of Barry McGuire's 1965 hit "Eve of Destruction", yet he also identifies the
Day Is Done (Peter, Paul and Mary song) earlier for their "Album 1700" released in 1967). The song was released in March 1969 and reached No. 21 on "Billboard" Hot 100 for chart dated June 21, 1969. The song was written as an anti-war song during the Vietnam War era, and Yarrow performed it as the opening song at a concert during the anti-war march he helped organized in Washington in November 1969. It became one of the well-known protest songs in the era. According to Yarrow, the message of the song is that "children will lead us to a better world". The song was recorded live at