Who Didn't
Start The Fire

Who Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel and Fall Out Boy Mix   9/16/2023

[Verse 1] 

G                 D 

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

Am                    C 

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland 

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 2] 

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                 Am

We didn't start the fire, It was always burning, 

      C                                   G               D 

Since the world's been turning, We didn't start the fire 

     Am                        C              G   D   Am C 

But when we are gone, Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on  x3 

[Verse 3]

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     

Tiger Woods, MySpace Monsanto, GMOs          G  D  Em  C

G                       D

Harry Potter, Twilight, poor 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 4]

G                        D

More war 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, global stocks take a swing

[Verse 5]

G                         D

Sandy Hook, Columbine  Biden took us by suprize

Em                  C

ISIS, LeBron James, Shinzo Abe blown away

G                            D

Meghan Markle, George Floyd, Burj Khalifa, Metroid

Em                     C

Fermi paradox, Vaccines really rock

G                    D

Michael Jordan 23, YouTube killed MTV

Em                      C

SpongeBob, square pants, oh no you can’t do that

G                   D

Donald Trump, 45, Woodstock '99

Em                        C

Keaton Batman, Bush v. Gore       I can't take it anymore

[Verse 6]

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, aliens have met their match

Em                  C

Mars rover, Avatar, Self-driving electric cars

G             D

S-S-R-Is, Prince and The Queen die

Em C

World Trade, second plane  What else do I have to say?

[Verse 7] 

G                    D 

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray 

Am *                         C 

Breaking Bad, Walter White, No one wants that woke Bud Light 

G                        D 

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television 

Am *                  C 

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe 

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 misses the Queen 

Am              C 

Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye