We Didn't Start The Fire chords
Billy Joel  1989  **

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire

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Harry Truman, 

           
Doris Day, Red

 China, Johnni

e Ray
 *          
South Pacific,

              
 Walter Winche

     
ll, Joe DiMagg

io
             
Joe McCarthy, 

              
Richard Nixon,

 
 Studebaker, t

elevision
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North Korea, S

            
outh Korea, Ma

rilyn Monroe

        

             
Rosenberg's, H

      
-bomb, Sugar R

ay, Panmunjom
            
Brando, "The K

           
ing and I" and

 "The Catcher 

in the Rye"
             
Eisenhower, va

       
ccine, England

's got a new q

ueen
            
Marciano, Libe

      
race, Santayan

a goodbye

             
We didn't star

      
t the fire;
       
It was always 

burning,
          
Since the worl

d's been turni

ng
             
We didn't star

      
t the fire
      
No we didn't l

ight it,
       
But we tried t

o fight it

             
Joseph Stalin,

           
 Malenkov, Nas

ser and Prokof

iev
            
Rockefeller, C

           
ampanella, Com

munist Bloc
             
Roy Kahn, Juan

        
 Peron, Toscan

ini, Dacron
            
Dien Bien, Phu

        
 falls, "Rock 

Around the Clo

ck"
             
Einstein, Jame

        
s Dean, Brookl

yn's got a win

ning team
            
Davy Crockett,

            
 Peter Pan, El

vis Presley, D

isneyland
             
Bardot, Budape

    
st, Alabama, K

hrushchev
            
Princess Grace

              
, "Peyton Plac

    
e", trouble in

 the Suez

             
We didn't star

      
t the fire;
       
It was always 

burning,
          
Since the worl

d's been turni

ng
             
We didn't star

      
t the fire
      
No we didn't l

ight it,
       
But we tried t

o fight it

            
Little Rock, P

          
asternak, Mick

ey Mantle, Ker

ouac
            
Sputnik, Chou 

         
En-Lai, "Bridg

e on the River

 Kwai"
            
Lebanon, Charl

              
es de Gaulle, 


California bas

eball
            
Starkweather, 

             
homicide, chil

              
dren of thalid

        
omide 

             
Buddy Holly, "

          
Ben Hur", spac

e monkey, Mafi

a
            
Hula hoops, Ca

      
stro, Edsel is

 a no-go
             
U-2, Syngman R

     
hee, payola an

d Kennedy
            
Chubby Checker

            
, "Psycho", Be

lgians in the 

Congo

             
We didn't star

      
t the fire
       
It was always 

burning,
          
Since the worl

d's been turni

ng
             
We didn't star

      
t the fire
      
No we didn't l

ight it,
       
But we tried t

o fight it

             
Hemingway, Eic

        
hmann, "Strang

er in a Strang

e Land"
            
Dylan, Berlin,

 
 Bay of Pigs i

nvasion
             
"Lawrence of A

        
rabia", Britis

h Beatle mania
            
Ole Miss, John

        
 Glenn, Liston

 beats Patters

on
             
Pope Paul, Mal

        
colm X, Britis

h politician s

ex
            
JFK, blown awa

   
y, what else d

o I have to sa

y

             
We didn't star

      
t the fire
       
It was always 

burning,
          
Since the worl

d's been turni

ng
             
We didn't star

      
t the fire
      
No we didn't l

ight it,
       
But we tried t

o fight it

             
Birth control,

              
 Ho Chi Minh, 


Richard Nixon 

back again
            
Moon shot, Woo

        
dstock, Waterg

ate, punk rock
             
Begin, Reagan,

            
 Palestine, te

rror on the ai

rline
            
Ayatollah's in

       
 Iran, Russian

s in Afghanist

an
             
"Wheel of Fort

              
une", Sally Ri

    
de, heavy meta

l, suicide
            
Foreign debts,

              
 homeless vets

  
, AIDS, crack,

 Bernie Goetz
             
Hypodermics on

             
 the shores, C

hina's under m

artial law
            
Rock and rolle

             
r cola wars, I

 can't take it

 anymore

             
We didn't star

      
t the fire
       
It was always 

burning,
          
Since the worl

d's been turni

ng
             
We didn't star

      
t the fire
         
But when we ar

e gone
             
Will it still 

             
burn on, and o

             
n, and on, and

     
 on      x3

*  It has been suggested that Em sounds better than Am

** Alternates:

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