We Didn't Start The Fire chords by Billy Joel
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Harry Truman, Doris Day,
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Red China, Johnnie Ray
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South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
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Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon,
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Studebaker, television
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North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Rosenbergs, H-bomb,
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Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
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Brando, "The King and I"
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and "The Catcher in the Rye"
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Eisenhower, vaccine,
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England's got a new queen
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Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
Chorus 1
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning
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Since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
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No we didn't light it
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But we tried to fight it
Verse 3
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Joseph Stalin, Malenkov,
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Nasser and Prokofiev
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Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
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Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
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Dien Bien Phu falls,
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"Rock Around the Clock"
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Einstein, James Dean,
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Brooklyn's got a winning team
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Davy Crockett, Peter Pan,
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Elvis Presley, Disneyland
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Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
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Princess Grace, "Peyton Place",
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trouble in the Suez
Chorus 2
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning
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Since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
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No we didn't light it
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But we tried to fight it
Bridge 1
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Little Rock, Pasternak,
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Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
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Sputnik, Zhou En-Lai,
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"Bridge on the River Kwai"
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Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle,
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California baseball, Starkweather homicide,
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children of Thalidomide
Verse 4
Oh, huh, ho
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Buddy Holly, "Ben-Hur", Space Monkey, Mafia
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Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
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U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
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Chubby Checker, "Psycho",
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Belgians in the Congo
Chorus 3
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning
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Since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
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No we didn't light it
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But we tried to fight it
Verse 5
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Hemingway, Eichmann,
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"Stranger in a Strange Land"
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Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
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"Lawrence of Arabia",
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British Beatlemania
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Ole Miss, John Glenn,
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Liston beats Patterson
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Pope Paul, Malcolm X,
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British politician sex
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JFK, blown away,
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what else do I have to say?
Chorus 4
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning
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Since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
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No we didn't light it
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But we tried to fight it
Verse 6
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Birth control, Ho Chi Minh,
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Richard Nixon back again
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Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
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Begin, Reagan, Palestine,
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terror on the airline
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Ayatollahs in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
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"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride,
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heavy metal, suicide
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Foreign debts, homeless vets,
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AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
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Hypodermics on the shores,
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China's under martial law
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Rock and roller Cola wars,
Chorus 5
I can't take it anymore
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning
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Since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
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But when we are gone
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It will still burn on, and on, and on
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and on and on and on and on and on
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning
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Since the world's been turning
Outro 1
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We didn't start the fire
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No we didn't light it
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But we tried to fight it
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning
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Since the world's been turning
[Repeat and fade]
We Didn't Start The Fire
Billy Joel
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