E|---------------------------------------------|
B|-------8-10-12---8-10-12-10-8---8-10-12-10-8-|
G|-7-7-9---------9--------------9--------------| Repeat
D|---------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------|


[Verse]

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

G                             D
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, 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                            C
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez


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

G                           D
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, 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