We Didn't Start The Fire
We Didn't Start The Fire

We Didn't Start The Fire chords by Billy Joel

1989Rock
Guitar
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  • Intro 1




    Verse 1
    Harry 
    Truman, 
    Doris 
    Day, 

    Red 
    China, 
    Johnnie 
    Ray 

    South 
    Pacific, 
    Walter 
    Winchell, 
    Joe 
    DiMaggio 

    Joe 
    McCarthy, 
    Richard 
    Nixon, 

    Studebaker, 
    television 

    North 
    Korea, 
    South 
    Korea, 
    Marilyn 
    Monroe 

    Interlude 1

    Verse 2
    Rosenbergs, 
    H-bomb, 

    Sugar 
    Ray, 
    Panmunjom 

    Brando, 
    "The 
    King 
    and 
    I" 

    and 
    "The 
    Catcher 
    in 
    the 
    Rye" 

    Eisenhower, 
    vaccine, 

    England's 
    got 
    new 
    queen 

    Marciano, 
    Liberace, 
    Santayana 
    goodbye 

    Chorus 1
    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    It 
    was 
    always 
    burning 

    Since 
    the 
    world's 
    been 
    turning 

    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    No 
    we 
    didn't 
    light 
    it 

    But 
    we 
    tried 
    to 
    fight 
    it 

    Verse 3
    Joseph 
    Stalin, 
    Malenkov, 

    Nasser 
    and 
    Prokofiev 

    Rockefeller, 
    Campanella, 
    Communist 
    Bloc 

    Roy 
    Cohn, 
    Juan 
    Peron, 
    Toscanini, 
    Dacron 

    Dien 
    Bien 
    Phu 
    falls, 

    "Rock 
    Around 
    the 
    Clock" 

    Einstein, 
    James 
    Dean, 

    Brooklyn's 
    got 
    winning 
    team 

    Davy 
    Crockett, 
    Peter 
    Pan, 

    Elvis 
    Presley, 
    Disneyland 

    Bardot, 
    Budapest, 
    Alabama, 
    Krushchev 

    Princess 
    Grace, 
    "Peyton 
    Place", 

    trouble 
    in 
    the 
    Suez 

    Chorus 2
    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    It 
    was 
    always 
    burning 

    Since 
    the 
    world's 
    been 
    turning 

    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    No 
    we 
    didn't 
    light 
    it 

    But 
    we 
    tried 
    to 
    fight 
    it 

    Bridge 1
    Little 
    Rock, 
    Pasternak, 

    Mickey 
    Mantle, 
    Kerouac 

    Sputnik, 
    Zhou 
    En-Lai, 

    "Bridge 
    on 
    the 
    River 
    Kwai" 

    Lebanon, 
    Charles 
    de 
    Gaulle, 

    California 
    baseball, 
    Starkweather 
    homicide, 

    children 
    of 
    Thalidomide 

    Verse 4
    Oh, 
    huh, 
    ho 

    Buddy 
    Holly, 
    "Ben-Hur", 
    Space 
    Monkey, 
    Mafia 

    Hula 
    hoops, 
    Castro, 
    Edsel 
    is 
    no-go 

    U2, 
    Syngman 
    Rhee, 
    Payola 
    and 
    Kennedy 

    Chubby 
    Checker, 
    "Psycho", 

    Belgians 
    in 
    the 
    Congo 

    Chorus 3
    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    It 
    was 
    always 
    burning 

    Since 
    the 
    world's 
    been 
    turning 

    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    No 
    we 
    didn't 
    light 
    it 

    But 
    we 
    tried 
    to 
    fight 
    it 

    Verse 5
    Hemingway, 
    Eichmann, 

    "Stranger 
    in 
    Strange 
    Land" 

    Dylan, 
    Berlin, 
    Bay 
    of 
    Pigs 
    invasion 

    "Lawrence 
    of 
    Arabia", 

    British 
    Beatlemania 

    Ole 
    Miss, 
    John 
    Glenn, 

    Liston 
    beats 
    Patterson 

    Pope 
    Paul, 
    Malcolm 
    X, 

    British 
    politician 
    sex 

    JFK, 
    blown 
    away, 

    what 
    else 
    do 
    have 
    to 
    say? 

    Chorus 4
    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    It 
    was 
    always 
    burning 

    Since 
    the 
    world's 
    been 
    turning 

    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    No 
    we 
    didn't 
    light 
    it 

    But 
    we 
    tried 
    to 
    fight 
    it 

    Verse 6
    Birth 
    control, 
    Ho 
    Chi 
    Minh, 

    Richard 
    Nixon 
    back 
    again 

    Moonshot, 
    Woodstock, 
    Watergate, 
    punk 
    rock 

    Begin, 
    Reagan, 
    Palestine, 

    terror 
    on 
    the 
    airline 

    Ayatollahs 
    in 
    Iran, 
    Russians 
    in 
    Afghanistan 

    "Wheel 
    of 
    Fortune", 
    Sally 
    Ride, 

    heavy 
    metal, 
    suicide 

    Foreign 
    debts, 
    homeless 
    vets, 

    AIDS, 
    Crack, 
    Bernie 
    Goetz 

    Hypodermics 
    on 
    the 
    shores, 

    China's 
    under 
    martial 
    law 

    Rock 
    and 
    roller 
    Cola 
    wars, 

    Chorus 5
    can't 
    take 
    it 
    anymore 

    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    It 
    was 
    always 
    burning 

    Since 
    the 
    world's 
    been 
    turning 

    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    But 
    when 
    we 
    are 
    gone 

    It 
    will 
    still 
    burn 
    on, 
    and 
    on, 
    and 
    on 

    and 
    on 
    and 
    on 
    and 
    on 
    and 
    on 
    and 
    on 

    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    It 
    was 
    always 
    burning 

    Since 
    the 
    world's 
    been 
    turning 

    Outro 1
    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    No 
    we 
    didn't 
    light 
    it 

    But 
    we 
    tried 
    to 
    fight 
    it 

    We 
    didn't 
    start 
    the 
    fire 

    It 
    was 
    always 
    burning 

    Since 
    the 
    world's 
    been 
    turning 

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    and 
    fade] 
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