 
We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel
G (320033) D (xx0232) Am (x02210) C (x32010
Intro: G D Am C
G D
Harry Truman Doris Day, Red China Johnnie Ray
Am C
South Pacific Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy Richard Nixon, Studebaker television
North Korea South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
G D Am C
Rosenbergs H-bomb, Sugar Ray Panmunjom
Brando "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano Liberace, Santayana goodbye
Chorus:
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
Joseph Stalin Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Kahn Juan Peron, Toscanini dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett Peter Pan, Elvis Presley Disneyland
Bardot Budapest, Alabama Krushchev
Princess Grace "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
(Chorus)
Am Em
Little Rock Pasternak, Mickey Mantle Kerouac
Am D
Sputnik Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Stark weather homicide, Children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly "Ben Hur", Space monkey Mafia
Hula hoops Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2 Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
(Chorus)
Hemingway Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK blown away, what else do I have to say
(Chorus)
Birth control Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot Woodstock, Watergate punk rock
Begin Reagan Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune" Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts homeless vets, AIDS crack Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
G D
We didn't start the fire
Am
But when we are gone
C G D Am C
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on
(Chorus until fade)
     
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