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We Didn't Start The Fire chords
Billy Joel
GÂ DÂ Am * CÂ x4
[Verse 1]
[Verse 1]
GÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
Am * Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â C
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
GÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
Am *Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â C
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
G D Am C
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Rosenberg's, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Am            C
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
GÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Am         C
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 1]
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
We didn't start the fire;
      Am
It was always burning,
         C
Since the world's been turning
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
We didn't start the fire
     Am
No we didn't light it,
      C
But we tried to fight it
[Verse 2]
[Verse 2]
GÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Am            C
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Am          C
Dien Bien, Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Am            C
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Am               C
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
[Verse 3]
[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 thalidomideÂ
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Am         C
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
GÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Am            C
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
[Verse 4]
[Verse 4]
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Am       C
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatle mania
Am          C
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
Am        C
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
[Chorus 4]
[Chorus 4]
[Verse 5]
[Verse 5]
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Am          C
Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Am          C
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
GÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Am              C
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
GÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Am             C
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
[Outro]
[Outro]
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
We didn't start the fire
      Am
It was always burning,
         C
Since the world's been turning
G Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â D
We didn't start the fire
        Am
But when we are gone
       C         G    D    Am  C
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on   x3
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