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