We Didnt Start The Fire

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G                        D
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, 
Johnnie Ray
Am                              C
South Pacific, Walter Winch ell, Joe
 DiMaggio
G                          
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, 
  D
Studebaker, television
Am                        C
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn 
Monroe

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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

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

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

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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

Am                      Em
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey 
Mantle, Kerouac
Am                     D
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the
 River Kwai"
Am                        
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, 
  Em
California baseball
Am                       D       
Stark weather, homicide, children
               D2 D
 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

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

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

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

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                             
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, 
 D
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

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
But when we are gone
        C                  G       
Will it still burn on, and on, and 
D       Am   C
on, and on