Billy Joel – We Didnt Start The Fire (Guitar)

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
Rosenberg's, 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,

       C
But we tried to fight it

G                        D
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

Am                       C
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

G                     D
Roy Kahn, 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

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

Am                      Em
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

Am                     D
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Am                          Em
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball

Am                       D                      Dsus2 D x2
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

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

G                     D
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"

Am             C
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

G                     D
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatle mania

Am                    C
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

G                     D
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex

Am               C
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

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

G                           D
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again

Am                    C
Moon shot, 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

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
But when we are gone

        C                  G       D       Am    C
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on      x3