We Didn't Start The Fire
Billy Joel / Billy Joel: Storm Front (1989)
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| G | D | Am | C |
| Harry Truman, Doris Day, | Red China, Johnnie Ray, | South Pacific, Walter Winchell, | Joe DiMaggio. |
| G | D | Am | C | riff |
| Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, | Studebaker, television, | North Korea, South Korea, | Marilyn Monroe | . |
| G | D | Am | C |
| Rosenbergs, H-bomb, | Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, | Brando, 'The King and I' | and 'The Catcher in the Rye'. |
| G | D | Am | C |
| Eisenhower, vaccine, | England's got a new queen, | Marciano, Liberace, | Santayana goodbye. |
| G | D | Am | C |
| We didn't start the | fire: It was | always burning since the | world's been turning! |
| G | D | Am | C |
| We didn't start the | fire: No we | didn't light it - but we | tried to fight it! |
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev; Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc. | |
Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron, Dien Bien Phu falls, 'Rock Around the Clock'. | |
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team, Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland. | |
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev, Princess Grace, 'Peyton Place', trouble in the Suez. | |
We didn't start the fire... | |
| Am | Em | Am | D |
| Little Rock, Pasternak, | Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, | Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, ' | Bridge on the River Kwai'. |
| Am | Em | Am | D |
| Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, | California baseball, | Starkweather homicides, | children of Thalidomide. |
Buddy Holly, 'Ben Hur', space monkey, Mafia, Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go. | |
U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy, Chubby Checker, 'Psycho', Belgians in the Congo. | |
We didn't start the fire... | |
Hemingway, Eichmann, 'Stranger in a Strange Land', Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion. | |
'Lawrence of Arabia', British Beatlemania, Ole' Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson. | |
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex, JFK blown away, what else do I have to say: | |
We didn't start the fire... | |
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again, Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock. | |
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline, Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan. | |
'Wheel of Fortune',Sally Ride,Heavy Metal suicide,foreign debts,homeless vets,AIDS,crack,Bernie Goetz. | |
| Am | n.c. |
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law, | Rock- | and-roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore. |
| G | D | Am | C |
| We didn't start the | fire: But when | we are gone will it | still burn on, and on, and on, and on, ... |
We didn't start the fire... | |
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