We Didn't Start The Fire chords by Billy Joel (Official Version)
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Intro 1
(G/D) (Dsus4) (E minor7) (Csus2)
(G/D) (Dsus4) (E minor7) (Csus2)
(G/D) (Dsus4) (E minor7) (Csus2)
(G/D) (Dsus4) (G/B) (Csus2)
Verse 1
(G major) Harry Truman, Doris Day,
(D major) Red China, Johnnie Ray
(E minor) South Pacific, Walter Winchell, (C major) Joe DiMaggio
(G major) Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon,
(D major) Studebaker, television
(E minor) North Korea, South Korea, (C major) Marilyn Monroe
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Interlude 1
(G/D) (Dsus4) (E minor7) (Csus2)
Verse 2
(G major) Rosenbergs, H-bomb,
(D major) Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
(E minor) Brando, "The King and I"
(C major) and "The Catcher in the Rye"
(G major) Eisenhower, vaccine,
(D major) England's got a new queen
(E minor) Marciano, Liberace, (C major) Santayana goodbye
Chorus 1
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
It was (E minor7) always burning
Since the (Csus2) world's been turning
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
No we (G/B) didn't light it
But we (Csus2) tried to fight it
Verse 3
(G major) Joseph Stalin, Malenkov,
(D major) Nasser and Prokofiev
(E minor) Rockefeller, Campanella, (C major) Communist Bloc
(G major) Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, (D major) Toscanini, Dacron
(E minor) Dien Bien Phu falls,
(C major) "Rock Around the Clock"
(G major) Einstein, James Dean,
(D major) Brooklyn's got a winning team
(E minor) Davy Crockett, Peter Pan,
(C major) Elvis Presley, Disneyland
(G major) Bardot, Budapest, (D major) Alabama, Krushchev
(E minor) Princess Grace, "Peyton Place",
(C major) trouble in the Suez
Chorus 2
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
It was (E minor7) always burning
Since the (Csus2) world's been turning
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
No we (G/B) didn't light it
But we (A minor) tried to fight it
Bridge 1
(C major) Little Rock, Pasternak,
(A minor) Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
(E minor) Sputnik, Zhou En-Lai,
(D major) "Bridge on the River Kwai"
(C major) Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle,
(A minor) California baseball, (E minor) Starkweather homicide,
(D major) children of Thalidomide
Verse 4
Oh, huh, ho
(G major) Buddy Holly, "Ben-Hur", (D major) Space Monkey, Mafia
(E minor) Hula hoops, Castro, (C major) Edsel is a no-go
(G major) U2, Syngman Rhee, (D major) Payola and Kennedy
(E minor) Chubby Checker, "Psycho",
(C major) Belgians in the Congo
Chorus 3
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
It was (E minor7) always burning
Since the (Csus2) world's been turning
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
No we (G/B) didn't light it
But we (Csus2) tried to fight it
Verse 5
(G major) Hemingway, Eichmann,
(D major) "Stranger in a Strange Land"
(E minor) Dylan, Berlin, (C major) Bay of Pigs invasion
(G major) "Lawrence of Arabia",
(D major) British Beatlemania
(E minor) Ole Miss, John Glenn,
(C major) Liston beats Patterson
(G major) Pope Paul, Malcolm X,
(D major) British politician sex
(E minor) JFK, blown away,
(C major) what else do I have to say?
Chorus 4
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
It was (E minor7) always burning
Since the (Csus2) world's been turning
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
No we (G/B) didn't light it
But we (Csus2) tried to fight it
Verse 6
(G major) Birth control, Ho Chi Minh,
(D major) Richard Nixon back again
(E minor) Moonshot, Woodstock, (C major) Watergate, punk rock
(G major) Begin, Reagan, Palestine,
(D major) terror on the airline
(E minor) Ayatollahs in Iran, (C major) Russians in Afghanistan
(G major) "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride,
(D major) heavy metal, suicide
(E minor) Foreign debts, homeless vets,
(C major) AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
(G major) Hypodermics on the shores,
(D major) China's under martial law
(E minor) Rock and roller Cola wars,
Chorus 5
I can't take it anymore
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
It was (E minor7) always burning
Since the (Csus2) world's been turning
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
But when (G/B) we are gone
It will (Csus2) still burn on, and on, (G/D) and on
and on (Dsus4) and on and on (E minor7) and on and on (Csus2)
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
It was (G/B) always burning
Since the (Csus2) world's been turning
Outro 1
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
No we (E minor7) didn't light it
But we (Csus2) tried to fight it
(G/D) We didn't start the fire (Dsus4)
It was (G/B) always burning
Since the (Csus2) world's been turning
[Repeat and fade]
We Didn't Start The Fire
Billy Joel
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