We Didn't Start The Fire chords by Billy Joel

Chords with lyrics

We Didn't Start The Fire chords
Billy Joel

G+G D MajorD A minorAm C majorC 4x

G+G            D MajorD
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
A minorAm               C majorC
South Pacific, Walter Winch ell, Joe DiMaggio
G+G              D MajorD
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
A minorAm            C majorC
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

G+G D MajorD A minorAm C majorC

G+G          D MajorD
Rosenberg's, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
A minorAm            C majorC
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
G+G          D MajorD
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
A minorAm         C majorC
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

G+G          D MajorD
We didn't start the fire;
    A minorAm
It was always burning,
     C majorC
Since the world's been turning
G+G          D MajorD
We didn't start the fire
   A minorAm
No we didn't light it,
    C majorC
But we tried to fight it

G+G            D MajorD
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
A minorAm            C majorC
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
G+G           D MajorD
Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
A minorAm          C majorC
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
G+G           D MajorD
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
A minorAm            C majorC
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
G+G         D MajorD
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
A minorAm               C majorC
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

G+G          D MajorD
We didn't start the fire;
    A minorAm
It was always burning,
     C majorC
Since the world's been turning
G+G          D MajorD
We didn't start the fire
   A minorAm
No we didn't light it,
    C majorC
But we tried to fight it

A minorAm           E minorEm
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
A minorAm           D MajorD
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
A minorAm             E minorEm
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
A minorAm            D MajorD           Dsus2Dsus2 D MajorD
Stark weather, homicide, children of thalidomide

G+G            D MajorD
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
A minorAm         C majorC
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
G+G         D MajorD
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
A minorAm            C majorC
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

G+G          D MajorD
We didn't start the fire
    A minorAm
It was always burning,
     C majorC
Since the world's been turning
G+G          D MajorD
We didn't start the fire
   A minorAm
No we didn't light it,
    C majorC
But we tried to fight it

G+G           D MajorD
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
A minorAm       C majorC
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
G+G           D MajorD
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatle mania
A minorAm          C majorC
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
G+G           D MajorD
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
A minorAm        C majorC
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

G+G          D MajorD
We didn't start the fire
    A minorAm
It was always burning,
     C majorC
Since the world's been turning
G+G          D MajorD
We didn't start the fire
   A minorAm
No we didn't light it,
    C majorC
But we tried to fight it

G+G              D MajorD
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
A minorAm          C majorC
Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
G+G             D MajorD
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
A minorAm          C majorC
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
 G+G               D MajorD
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
A minorAm              C majorC
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
G+G             D MajorD
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
A minorAm             C majorC
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

G+G          D MajorD
We didn't start the fire
    A minorAm
It was always burning,
     C majorC
Since the world's been turning
G+G          D MajorD
We didn't start the fire
     A minorAm
But when we are gone
    C majorC         G+G    D MajorD    A minorAm   C majorC
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on  3x


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