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We Didn't Start The Fire chords by
Billy Joel
Billy Joel
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp
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Key: G major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Harry Truman,
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Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
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South Pacific, Walter Winchell,
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Joe DiMaggio
Verse 2
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Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker,

television
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North Korea, South Korea,
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Marilyn Monroe
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Rosenbergs, H- bomb, Sugar
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Ray, Panmunjom
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Brando, "The King and I" and "The
Verse 4

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
Verse 5
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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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D

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We didn't start the fire
Bm
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No, we didn't light it
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C

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But we tried to fight it
Verse 6
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Joseph Stalin,
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Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
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Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Verse 7
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Roy Cohn, Juan Peron,
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Toscanini, Dacron

Dien Bien Phu falls,
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"Rock Around the Clock"
Verse 8
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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, Elvis Presley,
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Disneyland
Verse 9
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Bardot, Budapest, Alabama,

Khrushchev
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Princess Grace, "Peyton Place",
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trouble in the Suez
Verse 10
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D

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We didn't start the fire
Em
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It was always burning
C
C

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Since the world's been turning
D
D

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We didn't start the fire
Bm
Bm
2

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No, we didn't light it
Am
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But we tried to fight it
Verse 11
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Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle,
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Kerouac

Sputnik, Zhou En- Lai,
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"Bridge on the River Kwai"
Verse 12
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Lebanon,
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Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
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Starkweather homicide,
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children of Thalidomide
Verse 13
Verse 14

Oh, huh, ho
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Buddy Holly, "Ben- Hur",
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space monkey, Mafia
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Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no- go
Verse 15
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U2, Syngman Rhee,
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payola and Kennedy
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Chubby Checker, "Psycho",
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Belgians in the Congo
Verse 16
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning
C
C

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Since the world's been turning
D
D

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We didn't start the fire
Bm
Bm
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No, we didn't light it
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But we tried to fight it
Verse 17
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Hemingway,
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Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
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Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Verse 18
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"Lawrence of Arabia",
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British Beatlemania

Ole Miss, John Glenn,
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Liston beats Patterson
Verse 19
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Pope Paul, Malcolm X,
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British politician sex
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JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say?
Verse 20
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We didn't start the fire
Em
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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
Bm
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No, we didn't light it
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But we tried to fight it
Verse 21
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Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon
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back again

Moonshot, Woodstock,
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Watergate, punk rock
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Be gin, Reagan, Palestine,
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terror on the airline

Ayatollahs in Iran,
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Russians in Afghanistan
Verse 22
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"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride,
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heavy metal, suicide
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Foreign debts, homeless vets, 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,
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I can't take it anymore
Verse 23

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
Bm
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But when we are gone
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It will still burn on, and on, and on

And on, and on, and on,
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and on, and on, and on
Verse 24
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning
C
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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 25
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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 26
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We didn't start the fire

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

But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire

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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • D

  • Em

  • C

  • Bm

    2

  • G

  • Am

Capo: 0

Transpose: 0

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The original key of We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel, Twyla Tharp is G major.

The primary chords used in We Didn't Start The Fire are D, Em, C, Bm, G, Am.

No capo is required for this song.

Yes, this version uses open chords like D, Em, C, Bm, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of We Didn't Start The Fire is approximately 146 beats per minute.

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