Artist: | Billy Joel (English) |
User: | Mike David |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Default |
Abusive: | |
Comment: | - |
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE
by Billy Joel
[INTRO]
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G Am Em C
G Am Em C
G Am Em C
G Am Em C
[VERSE]
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Harry Truman, Doris Day,
D
Red China, Johnnie Ray
Em
South Pacific, Walter Winchell,
C
Joe DiMaggio
G
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon,
D
Studebaker, television
Em
North Korea, South Korea,
C G Am Em C
Marilyn Monroe
[VERSE]
G
Rosenbergs, H-bomb,
D
Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Em
Brando, "The King and I",
C
and "The Catcher in the Rye"
G
Eisenhower, Vaccine,
D
England's got a new queen
Em
Marciano, Liberace,
C
Santayana, goodbye
[CHORUS]
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning,
C
since the world's been turning
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
No, we didn't light it,
C
but we tried to fight it
[VERSE]
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Joseph Stalin, Malenkov,
D
Nasser and Prokofiev
Em
Rockefeller, Campanella,
C
Communist Bloc
G
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron,
D
Toscanini, Dacron
Em
Dien Bien Phu falls,
C
"Rock Around the Clock"
[VERSE]
G
Einstein, James Dean,
D
Brooklyn's got a winning team
Em
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan,
C
Elvis Presley, Disneyland
G
Bardot, Budapest,
D
Alabama, Krushchev
Em
Princess Grace, Peyton Place,
C
Trouble in the Suez
[CHORUS]
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning,
C
since the world's been turning
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
No, we didn't light it,
C
but we tried to fight it
[BRIDGE]
C
Little Rock, Pasternak,
Am
Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Em
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai,
D
"Bridge on the River Kwai"
C
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle,
Am
California baseball
Em
Starkweather homicide,
D
children of thalidomide, Oh, oh, oh
[VERSE]
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Buddy Holly, Ben Hur,
D
space monkey, mafia
Em
Hula hoops, Castro,
C
Edsel is a no-go
G
U2, Syngman Rhee,
D
Payola and Kennedy
Em
Chubby Checker, Psycho,
C
Belgians in the Congo
[CHORUS]
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning,
C
since the world's been turning
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
No, we didn't light it,
C
but we tried to fight it
[VERSE]
G
Hemingway, Eichmann,
D
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
Em
Dylan, Berlin,
C
Bay of Pigs invasion
G
"Lawrence of Arabia",
D
British Beatlemania
Em
Ole Miss, John Glenn,
C
Liston beats Patterson
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Pope Paul, Malcolm X,
D
British politician sex
Em
JFK – blown away,
C
what else do I have to say?
[CHORUS]
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning,
C
since the world's been turning
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
No, we didn't light it,
C
but we tried to fight it
[VERSE]
G
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh,
D
Richard Nixon back again
Em
Moonshot, Woodstock,
C
Watergate, punk rock
G
Begin, Reagan, Palestine,
D
terror on the airline
Em
Ayatollah's in Iran,
C
Russians in Afghanistan
[VERSE]
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"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride,
D
heavy metal suicide
Em
Foreign debts, homeless vets,
C
AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
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Hypodermics on the shore,
D
China's under martial law
Em
Rock and roller, cola wars,
C
I can't take it anymore
[CHORUS 2]
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning,
C
since the world's been turning
G Am
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
[CHORUS]
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning,
C
since the world's been turning
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
No, we didn't light it,
C
but we tried to fight it
[CODA]
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning,
C
since the world's been turning
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
No, we didn't light it,
C
but we tried to fight it
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning,
C
since the world's been turning
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
No, we didn't light it,
C
but we tried to fight it
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning,
C
since the world's been turning
G Am
We didn't start the fire
Em
No, we didn't light it,
C
but we tried to fight it