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{t:We Didn't Start The Fire} {artist:Billy Joel} {key:C} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g {c: Play first verse as intro} [G] Harry Truman, Doris Day, [D] Red China, Johnnie Ray [Am] South Pacific, Walter Winchell, [C] Joe DiMaggio [G] Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, [D] Studebaker, television [Am] North Korea, South Korea, [C] Marilyn Monroe {c: } [G] [D] [Am] [C] [G] Rosenbergs, H-bomb, [D] Sugar Ray, Panmunjom [Am] Brando, "The King and I" [C] and "The Catcher in the Rye" [G] Eisenhower, vaccine, [D] England's got a new queen [Am] Marciano, Liberace, [C] Santayana goodbye {c: } [G] We didn't start the [D] fire; It was [Am] always burning, Since the [C] world's been turning [G] We didn't start the [D] fire No we [Am] didn't light it, But we [C] tried to fight it {c: } [G] Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, [D] Nasser and Prokofiev [Am] Rockefeller, Campanella, [C] Communist Bloc [G] Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, [D] Toscanini, Dacron [Am] Dien Bien Phu falls, "[C] Rock Around the Clock" [G] Einstein, James Dean, [D] Brooklyn's got a winning team [Am] Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, [C] Elvis Presley, Disneyland [G] Bardot, Budapest, [D] Alabama, Khrushchev [Am] Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", [C] trouble in the Suez {c: } [G] We didn't start the [D] fire; It was [Am] always burning, Since the [C] world's been turning [G] We didn't start the [D] fire No we [Am] didn't light it, But we [C] tried to fight it {c: } [Am] Little Rock, Pasternak, [Em] Mickey Mantle, Kerouac [Am] Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, [D] "Bridge on the River Kwai" [Am] Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, [Em] California baseball [Am] Stark weather, homicide, [D] children of thalidomide {c: } [G] Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", [D] space monkey, Mafia [Am] Hula hoops, Castro, [C] Edsel is a no-go [G] U-2, Syngman Rhee, [D] payola and Kennedy [Am] Chubby Checker, "Psycho", [C] Belgians in the Congo {c: } [G] We didn't start the [D] fire It was [Am] always burning, Since the [C] world's been turning [G] We didn't start the [D] fire No we [Am] didn't light it, But we [C] tried to fight it {c: } [G] Hemingway, Eichmann, "[D] Stranger in a Strange Land" [Am] Dylan, Berlin, [C] Bay of Pigs invasion [G] "Lawrence of Arabia", [D] British Beatle mania [Am] Ole Miss, John Glenn, [C] Liston beats Patterson [G] Pope Paul, Malcolm X, [D] British politician sex [Am] JFK, blown away, [C] what else do I have to say {c: } [G] We didn't start the [D] fire It was [Am] always burning, Since the [C] world's been turning [G] We didn't start the [D] fire No we [Am] didn't light it, But we [C] tried to fight it {c: } [G] Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, [D] Richard Nixon back again [Am] Moon shot, Woodstock, [C] Watergate, punk rock [G] Begin, Reagan, Palestine, [D] terror on the airline [Am] Ayatollah's in Iran, [C] Russians in Afghanistan "[G] Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, [D] heavy metal, suicide [Am] Foreign debts, homeless vets, [C] AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz [G] Hypodermics on the shores, [D] China's under martial law [Am] Rock and roller cola wars, [C] I can't take it anymore {c: } [G] We didn't start the [D] fire It was [Am] always burning, Since the [C] world's been turning [G] We didn't start the [D] fire But when [Am] we are gone Will it [C] still burn on, and [G] on, and [D] on, and [Am] on [C] Will it [C] still burn on, and [G] on, and [D] on, and [Am] on [C]