We Didn't Start the Fire Chords by Billy Joel
- Key: G
- BPM: 146
- Capo: no capo
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WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE CHORDS
[Start] [Intro] D Em7 C D Em7 Em ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ C D G C ■ ■ ■ ■ [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 G D Em7 C ■ ■ ■ ■ G D Rosenbergs Hbomb Sugar Ray Panmunjom Em C Em C Brando The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye G D7 Eisenhower vaccine England's got a new queen Em D7 Marciano Liberace Santayana goodbye [Chorus] G D7 D We didn't start the fire Em7 It was always burning C Since the world's been turning D We didn't start the fire G No we didn't light it G But we tried to fight it [Verse] 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 Em7 G Davy Crockett Peter Pan Elvis Presley Disneyland D Bardot Budapest Alabama Krushchev Em C G Princess Grace Peyton Place trouble in the Suez [Chorus] D We didn't start the fire Em7 It was always burning C Since the world's been turning G D We didn't start the fire G No we didn't light it Am7 But we tried to fight it C Am Little Rock Pasternak Mickey Mantle Kerouac Em D Sputnik Zhou EnLai Bridge on the River Kwai C Am Lebanon Charles de Gaulle California baseball Em D Starkweather homicide children of Thalidomide D7 G Oh ■ huh ho [Verse] D7 Buddy Holly BenHur space monkey Mafia Em C Hula hoops Castro Edsel is a nogo G D Utwo Syngman Rhee payola and Kennedy Em C Chubby Checker Psycho Belgians in the Congo [Chorus] Dsus4 We didn't start the fire Em7 It was always burning G Since the world's been turning D G We didn't start the fire G No we didn't light it G But we tried to fight it [Verse] 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 [Chorus] Em C Jfk blown away what else do I have to say G D We didn't start the fire Em7 It was always burning C Since the world's been turning G D We didn't start the fire G No we didn't light it C But we tried to fight it [Bridge] 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 Ayatollahs 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 Em7 Rock and roller Cola wars I can't take it anymore [Chorus] G D We didn't start the fire Em7 It was always burning C Since the world's been turning G D We didn't start the fire G But when we are gone G It will still burn on and on and on D Em7 C And on and on and ■ on and on and on and ■ on D We didn't start the fire G It was always burning C Since the world's been turning G D We didn't start the fire Em7 No we didn't light it C But we tried to fight it D We didn't start the fire D It was always burning G Since the world's been turning G We didn't start the fire G No we didn't light it Dsus4 But we tried to fight it D We didn't start the fire Em7 It was always burning C Since the world's been turning C We didn't start the fire [Outro] D No we didn't light it G But we tried to fight it C Dsus4 D We didn't start the fire ■ ■ ■