We Didnt Start The Fire

We Didn't Start The Fire

Everyone seems to have this wrong,
so here we go...the CORRECT version
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MAIN LEAD RIFF (thanks Aussie, you 
got it right.)
E|------------------------------
B|------------12--------12------
G|--------1214------1214--1412--
D|12121214--------14----------14
A|------------------------------
E|------------------------------

E|--------------------------------
B|----12--------------------------
G|1214--1412------Repeat over and 
D|----------14--------------------
A|--------------------------------
E|--------------------------------

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over again--| 
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(this goes on for 16 bars until the 
rest of the music kicks in, and 
continues)
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OPENING CHORDS

G                       D
Em                      c
G                       D
B                       C
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VERSE

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

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(INTRO RIFF is played for 4 bars)

G                       D
Em                      c
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VERSE

G                    D
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, 
Panmunjom
Em                       C
Brando, The King and I, and The 
Catcher in the Rye
G                    D
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a
 new queen
Em                    C
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana 
goodbye
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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)

G                   D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
          C
Since the world's been turning
G                   D
We didn't start the fire
      B
No we didn't light it
       C
But we tried to fight it
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VERSE

G                        D
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand
 Prokofiev
Em                        C
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist 
Bloc
G                    D
Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, 
dacron
Em                   C
Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the
 Clock
G                     D
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got
 a winning team
Em                         C
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis 
Presley, Disneyland
Continúa después del anuncio
G                 D
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Em                          
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, 
   C
trouble in the Suez

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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)

G                   D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
          C
Since the world's been turning
G                   D
We didn't start the fire
      B
No we didn't light it
       A
But we tried to fight it

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BRIDGE

C                       A
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey 
Mantle, Kerouac
Em                    D
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the 
River Kwai
C                         
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, 
  A
California baseball
Em                      D
Starkweather, homicide, children of 
thalidomide
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Exit to Bridge - Lead Guitar Part 
(these are hammer ons)
E|----12-0-0---10-0-0---8-0-0---7-
B|--------------------------------
G|--------------------------------
D|--------------------------------
A|--------------------------------
E|--------------------------------

E|0-0-8-----------------------------
B|----------------------------------
G|----------------------------------
D|----------------------------------
A|----------------------------------
E|----------------------------------

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VERSE

G                     D
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, 
Mafia
Em                   C
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
G                  D
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and 
Kennedy
Em                       C
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in 
the Congo
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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)

G                   D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
          C
Since the world's been turning
G                   D
We didn't start the fire
      B
No we didn't light it
       C
But we tried to fight it

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VERSE

G                    D
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a 
Strange Land
Em             C
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
G                   D
Lawrence of Arabia, British 
Beatlemania
Em                    C
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats 
Patterson
G                     D
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British 
politician sex
Em                C
JFK, blown away, what else do I have
 to say

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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)

G                   D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
          C
Since the world's been turning
G                   D
We didn't start the fire
      B
No we didn't light it
       C
But we tried to fight it
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VERSE

G                           D
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard 
Nixon back again
Em                   C
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk
 rock
G                         D
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on 
the airline
Em                    C
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in 
Afghanistan
G                             D
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy 
metal, suicide
Em                             C
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, 
crack, Bernie Goetz
G                          D
Hypodermics on the shores, China's 
under martial law
Em                         C
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't 
take it anymore
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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)

G                   D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
          C
Since the world's been turning
G                   D
We didn't start the fire
      B
But when we are gone
       C                  D
It still burn on, and on, and on, 
and on
                    Em             
And on, and on, and on, and on, and
 C
 on
G                   D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
          C
Since the world's been turning
G                   D
We didn't start the fire
      B
No we didn't light it
       C
But we tried to fight it
G                   D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
          C
Since the world's been turning
G                   D
We didn't start the fire
      B
No we didn't light it
       C
But we tried to fight it