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We Didnt Start The Fire Billy Joel
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[G]Em [D]c
[B]________________________[C]____________________________
VERSE
[G]Harry Truman, Doris Day, R[D]ed China, Johnnie Ray
[Em]South Pacific, Walter Winchell, J[C]oe DiMaggio
[G]Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, S[D]tudebaker, television
[Em]North Korea, South Korea, M[C]arilyn Monroe
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(INTRO RIFF is played for 4 bars)
[G]Em [D]c
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VERSE
[G]Rosenbergs, H-bomb, S[D]ugar Ray, Panmunjom
[Em]Brando, The King and I, a[C]nd The Catcher in the Rye
[G]Eisenhower, vaccine, [D]England's got a new queen
[Em]Marciano, Liberace, Sa[C]ntayana goodbye
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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
[Em]It was always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
No we [B]didn't light it
But we [C]tried to fight it
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VERSE
[G]Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, [D]Nasser aand Prokofiev
[Em]Rockefeller, Campanella, C[C]ommunist Bloc
[G]Roy hn, Juan Peron, T[D]oscanini, dacron
[Em]Dien Bien Phu falls, [C]Rock Around the Clock
[G]Einstein, James Dean, [D]Brooklyn's got a winning team
[Em]Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, E[C]lvis Presley, Disneyland
[G]Bardot, Budapest, [D]Alabama, Krushchev
[Em]Princess Grace, Peyton Place, t[C]rouble in the Suez
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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
[Em]It was always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
No we [B]didn't light it
But we [A]tried to fight it
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BRIDGE
[C]Little Rock, Pasternak, [A]Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
[Em]Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, [D]Bridge on the River Kwai
[C]Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, [A]California baseball
[Em]Starkweather, homicide, [D]children of thalidomide
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Exit to Bridge - Lead Guitar Part (these are hammer ons)
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VERSE
[G]Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, [D]space monkey, Mafia
[Em]Hula hoops, Castro, E[C]dsel is a no-go
[G]U-2, Syngman Rhee, [D]payola and Kennedy
[Em]Chubby Checker, Psycho, B[C]elgians in the Congo
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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
[Em]It was always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
No we [B]didn't light it
But we [C]tried to fight it
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VERSE
[G]Hemingway, Eichmann, [D]Stranger in a Strange Land
[Em]Dylan, Berlin, [C]Bay of Pigs invasion
[G]Lawrence of Arabia, [D]British Beatlemania
[Em]Ole Miss, John Glenn, [C]Liston beats Patterson
[G]Pope Paul, Malcolm X, [D]British politician sex
[Em]JFK, blown away, w[C]hat else do I have to say
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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
[Em]It was always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
No we [B]didn't light it
But we [C]tried to fight it
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VERSE
[G]Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, [D]Richard Nixon back again
[Em]Moonshot, Woodstock, [C]Watergate, punk rock
[G]Begin, Reagan, Palestine, [D]terror on the airline
[Em]Ayatollah's in Iran, R[C]ussians in Afghanistan
[G]Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, [D]heavy metal, suicide
[Em]Foreign debts, homeless vets, A[C]IDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
[G]Hypodermics on the shores, [D]China's under martial law
[Em]Rock and roller cola wars, [C]I can't take it anymore
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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
[Em]It was always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
But wh[B]en we are gone
It stil[C]l burn on, and on, [D]and on, and on
And on, and on, and [Em]on, and on, and [C]on
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
[Em]It was always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
No we [B]didn't light it
But we [C]tried to fight it
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
[Em]It was always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
No we [B]didn't light it
But we [C]tried to fight it
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