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We Didn't Start The Fire Billy Joel
intro
[G] [D] [Am] [C]
[G]Harry Truman, Doris Day, [D]Red China, Johnnie Ray
[Am]South Pacific, Walter Winchell, [C]Joe DiMaggio
[G]Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, [D]Studebaker, television
[Am]North Korea, South Korea, [C]Marilyn Monroe
repeat intro
[G] [D] [Am] [C]
[G]Rosenbergs, H-bomb, [D]Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
[Am]Brando, "The King and I" and [C]"The Catcher in the Rye"
[G]Eisenhower, vaccine, [D]England's got a new queen
[Am]Marciano, Liberace, [C]Santayana goodbye
chorus (+intro)
[G]We didn't start the f[D]ire
It was al[Am]ways burning
Since the w[C]orld's been turning
[G]We didn't start the f[D]ire
No we d[Am]idn't light it
But we t[C]ried to fight it
repeat intro
[G] [D] [Am] [C]
[G]Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, [D]Nasser and Prokofiev
[Am]Rockefeller, Campanella, [C]Communist Bloc
[G]Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, [D]Toscanini, dacron
[Am]Dien Bien Phu falls, [C]"Rock Around the Clock"
[G]Einstein, James Dean, [D]Brooklyn's got a winning team
[Am]Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, [C]Elvis Presley, Disneyland
[G]Bardot, Budapest, [D]Alabama, Krushchev
[Am]Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", [C]trouble in the Suez
chorus (+intro)
[G]We didn't start the f[D]ire
It was al[Am]ways burning
Since the w[C]orld's been turning
[G]We didn't start the f[D]ire
No we d[Am]idn't light it
But we t[C]ried to fight it
repeat intro
[G] [D] [Am] [C]
[Am]Little Rock, Pasternak, [Em]Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
[Am]Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "[D]Bridge on the River Kwai"
[Am]Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, [Em]California baseball
[Am]Starkweather, homicide, [D]children of thalidomide [D] [D]
[G]Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", [D]space monkey, Mafia
[Am]Hula hoops, Castro, [C]Edsel is a no-go
[G]U-2, Syngman Rhee, [D]payola and Kennedy
[Am]Chubby Checker, "Psycho", [C]Belgians in the Congo
chorus (+intro)
[G]We didn't start the f[D]ire
It was al[Am]ways burning
Since the w[C]orld's been turning
[G]We didn't start the f[D]ire
No we d[Am]idn't light it
But we t[C]ried to fight it
repeat intro
[G] [D] [Am] [C]
[G]Hemingway, Eichmann, [D]"Stranger in a Strange Land"
[Am]Dylan, Berlin, [C]Bay of Pigs invasion
[G]"Lawrence of Arabia", [D]British Beatlemania
[Am]Ole Miss, John Glenn, [C]Liston beats Patterson
[G]Pope Paul, Malcolm X, [D]British politician sex
[Am]JFK, [N.C.]blown away, what else do I have to say
chorus (+intro)
[G]We didn't start the f[D]ire
It was al[Am]ways burning
Since the w[C]orld's been turning
[G]We didn't start the f[D]ire
No we d[Am]idn't light it
But we t[C]ried to fight it
repeat intro
[G] [D] [Am] [C]
[G]Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, [D]Richard Nixon back again
[Am]Moonshot, Woodstock, [C]Watergate, punk rock
[G]Begin, Reagan, Palestine, [D]terror on the airline
[Am]Ayatollah's in Iran, [C]Russians in Afghanistan
[G]"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, [D]heavy metal, suicide
[Am]Foreign debts, homeless vets, [C]AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
[G]Hypodermics on the shores, [D]China's under martial law
[Am]Rock [N.C.]and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
[G]We didn't start the f[D]ire
But when [Am]we are gone
Will it [C]still burn on, and [G]on, and [D]on, and [Am]on...[C]
repeat chorus 'till fade
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