We Didnt Start The Fire Chords
by Billy Joel 

[Verse 1]

G                        D

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray

Am *                             C

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

G                            D

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television

Am *                      C

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

G  D  Am  C

G                   D

Rosenberg's, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

Am                       C

Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

G                    D

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen

Am                  C

Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

[Verse 2]

G                        D

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

Am                       C

Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

G                     D

Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron

Am                    C

Dien Bien, Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

G                     D

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

Am                        C

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

G                 D

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev

Am                              C

Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

[Verse 3]

Am                      Em

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

Am                     D

Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Am                          Em

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball

Am                       D                      Dsus2 D x2

Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide 

G                       D

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia

Am                  C

Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

G                  D

U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy

Am                        C

Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

[Verse 4]

G                     D

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"

Am             C

Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

G                     D

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatle mania

Am                    C

Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

G                     D

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex

Am               C

JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

[Verse 5]

G                           D

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again

Am                    C

Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

G                         D

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline

Am                   C

Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

 G                              D

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide

Am                            C

Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz

G                          D

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law

Am                         C

Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

[Chorus]

G                   D

We didn't start the fire

       Am

It was always burning,

          C

Since the world's been turning

G                   D

We didn't start the fire

      Am

No we didn't light it,

       C

But we tried to fight it

Fall Out Boy

[Intro]

G  D  Em  C

[Verse 1]

G                            D

Captain Planet, Arab Spring, L.A. riots, Rodney King

Em                       C

Deep fakes, earthquakes, Iceland volcano

G                   D

Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon

Em                      C

Tiger Woods, MySpace Monsanto, GMOs

G  D  Em  C

G                       D

Harry Potter, Twilight, Michael Jackson dies

Em                  C

Nuclear accident, Fukushima, Japan

G                  D

Crimean peninsula, Cambridge Analytica

Em                  C

Kim Jong Un, Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man

[Verse 2]

G                        D

More war in Afghanistan, Cubs go all the way again

Em                  C

Obama, Spielberg, Explosion, Lebanon

G                         D

Unabomber, Bobbitt, John, Bombing, Boston Marathon

Em                  C

Balloon Boy, War On Terror, QAnon

G                           D

Trump gets impeached twice, Polar bears got no ice

Em                       C

Fyre Fest, Black Parade, Michael Phelps, Y2K

G                      D

Boris Johnson, Brexit, Kanye West and Taylor Swift

Em                           C

Stranger Things, Tiger King, Ever Given, Suez

[Verse 3]

C

Sandy Hook, Columbine

Am

Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice

Em                  D

ISIS, LeBron James, Shinzo Abe blown away

C                            Am

Meghan Markle, George Floyd, Burj Khalifa, Metroid

Em             D

Fermi paradox, Venus and Serena

D

G                    D

Michael Jordan, 23, YouTube killed MTV

Em                      C

SpongeBob, Golden State Killer got caught

G                   D

Michael Jordan, 45, Woodstock '99

Em

Keaton Batman, Bush v. Gore

C

I can't take it anymore

[Verse 4]

G                      D

Elon Musk, Kaepernick, Texas failed electric grid

Em                          C

Jeff Bezos, climate change, White rhino goes extinct

G                            D

Great Pacific garbage patch, Tom DeLonge and aliens

Em                  C

Mars rover, Avatar, Self-driving electric cars

G      D

SSRIs, Prince and The Queen die

Em

World Trade, second plane

C

What else do I have to say?

[Chorus]

G                   D

We didn't start the fire (we didn't start it, yeah)

       Em                       C

It was always burning since the world's been turning

G                   D

We didn't start the fire (we didn't start it, yeah)

         Em                   C                G

But when we are gone, it will still go on, and on, and on

    D               Em              C

And on, and on, and on, and on, and on

G                    D

We didn't start the fire

       Em                       C                      D

It was always burning since the world's been turning