David Hasselhoff – We Didnt Start The Fire (Guitar)

E                        B
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray

C#m                             A
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

E                            B
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television

C#m                       A
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

E                   B
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

C#m                     A
Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye

E                    B
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen

C#m                 A
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

       C#m
It was always burning

          A
Since the world's been turning

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

             G#m
No we didn't light it

                A
But we tried to fight it

E                        B
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

C#m                      A
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

E                     B
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron

C#m                  A
Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock

E                     B
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

C#m                       A
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

E                 B
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev

C#m                           A
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

       C#m
It was always burning

          A
Since the world's been turning

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

             G#m
No we didn't light it

                A
But we tried to fight it

A                       F#m
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

C#m                   B
Sputnik, Chou En-lai, Bridge on the River Kwai

A                           F#m
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball

C#m                    B
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

E                     B
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, Mafia

C#m                 A
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

E                  B
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy

C#m                     A
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

       C#m
It was always burning

          A
Since the world's been turning

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

             G#m
No we didn't light it

                A
But we tried to fight it

E                    B
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land

C#m            A
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

E                   B
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania

C#m                   A
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

E                     B
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex

C#m             A
JFK blown away, what else do I have to say?

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

       C#m
It was always burning

          A
Since the world's been turning

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

             G#m
No we didn't light it

                A
But we tried to fight it

E                           B
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again

C#m                  A
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

E                         B
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline

C#m                  A
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

E                             B
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide

C#m                           A
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz

E                          B
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law

C#m                        A
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

        C#m
It was always burning

          A
Since the world's been turning

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

         G#m
But when we are gone

        A                  E               B               C#m             A
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

       C#m
It was always burning

          A
Since the world's been turning

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

             G#m
No we didn't light it

                A
But we tried to fight it

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

       C#m
It was always burning

          A
Since the world's been turning

E                   B
We didn't start the fire

             G#m
No we didn't light it

                A
But we tried to fight it

E
We didn't start the fire