We Didn't Start the Fire Chords by Billy Joel

[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 ■ ■     ■