We Didn't Start The Fire

Chords

Standard

G                         D
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
Am                                   C
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
G                                D
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
Am                              C
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

G                       D
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Am                                C
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
G                       D
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Am                       C
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

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
                 
But we tried to fight it

G                            D
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Am                           C
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
G                        D
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Am                     C
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
G                        D
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Am                          C
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
G                   D
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Am                              C
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez


We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
G                           D
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Am                       C
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
G                             D
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Am                          C
Starkweather, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide...

G                       D
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Am                    C
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
G                    D
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Am                          C
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo


We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
G                      D
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Am               C
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
G                       D
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Am                     C
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

G                      D
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician Sex
Am                   C
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?


We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
G                             D
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Am                     C
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
G                           D
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Am                     C
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
G                               D
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Am                             C     
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
G                            D
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Am                         C
Rock and Roller Cola wars, I can't take it anymore


We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on and on and on and on
And on and on and on and on...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it