We Didnt Start The Fire

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[Verse]

G                         D
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, 
Johnnie Ray
Em                              C
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe 
DiMaggio

G                          
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, 
   D
Studebaker, television
Em                        C
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn 
Monroe

(Intro Riff)

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


[Chorus] (Play the Intro)

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


[Verse]

G                        D
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and 
Prokofiev
Em                       C
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist 
Bloc

G                     D
Roy Cohn, 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

G                 D
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Em                          
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, 
  C
trouble in the Suez


(Chorus)

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

[Verse]

G                       D
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey 
Mantle, Kerouac
Em                    C
Sputnik, Chou En-lai, Bridge on the 
River Kwai

G                         
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, 
  D
California baseball
Em                     C
Starkweather homicide, children of 
thalidomide

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


(Chorus)

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

[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


(Chorus)

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

[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


(Chorus)

G
We didn't start the fire
        Em
It was always burning
          C
Since the world's been turning
G
We didn't start the fire
         Em
But when we are gone
        C
It will still burn on, and on, and 
on, and on, and on, and on, and on, 
and on

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