We Didn't Start The Fire

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[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[G]Harry Truman, Doris Day,
[D]Red China, Johnnie Ray
[Em]South Pacific, Walter Winchell, [C]Joe DiMaggio
[G]Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon,
[D]Studebaker, television
[Em]North Korea, South Korea, [C]Marilyn Monroe

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 2]
[G]Rosenbergs, H-bomb,
[D]Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
[Em]Brando, "The King and I"
[C]and "The Catcher in the Rye"
[G]Eisenhower, vaccine,
[D]England's got a new queen
[Em]Marciano, Liberace, [C]Santayana goodbye

[Chorus 1]
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
It was [Em]always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
No we [G]didn't light it
But we [C]tried to fight it

[Verse 3]
[G]Joseph Stalin, Malenkov,
[D]Nasser and Prokofiev
[Em]Rockefeller, Campanella, [C]Communist Bloc
[G]Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, [D]Toscanini, Dacron
[Em]Dien Bien Phu falls,
[C]"Rock Around the Clock"
[G]Einstein, James Dean,
[D]Brooklyn's got a winning team
[Em]Davy Crockett, Peter Pan,
[C]Elvis Presley, Disneyland
[G]Bardot, Budapest, [D]Alabama, Krushchev
[Em]Princess Grace, "Peyton Place",
[C]trouble in the Suez

[Chorus 2]
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
It was [Em]always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
No we [G]didn't light it
But we [Am]tried to fight it

[Bridge 1]
[C]Little Rock, Pasternak,
[Am]Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
[Em]Sputnik, Zhou En-Lai,
[D]"Bridge on the River Kwai"
[C]Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle,
[Am]California baseball, [Em]Starkweather homicide,
[D]children of Thalidomide

[Verse 4]
Oh, huh, ho
[G]Buddy Holly, "Ben-Hur", [D]Space Monkey, Mafia
[Em]Hula hoops, Castro, [C]Edsel is a no-go
[G]U2, Syngman Rhee, [D]Payola and Kennedy
[Em]Chubby Checker, "Psycho",
[C]Belgians in the Congo

[Chorus 3]
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
It was [Em]always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
No we [G]didn't light it
But we [C]tried to fight it

[Verse 5]
[G]Hemingway, Eichmann,
[D]"Stranger in a Strange Land"
[Em]Dylan, Berlin, [C]Bay of Pigs invasion
[G]"Lawrence of Arabia",
[D]British Beatlemania
[Em]Ole Miss, John Glenn,
[C]Liston beats Patterson
[G]Pope Paul, Malcolm X,
[D]British politician sex
[Em]JFK, blown away,
[C]what else do I have to say?

[Chorus 4]
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
It was [Em]always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
No we [G]didn't light it
But we [C]tried to fight it

[Verse 6]
[G]Birth control, Ho Chi Minh,
[D]Richard Nixon back again
[Em]Moonshot, Woodstock, [C]Watergate, punk rock
[G]Begin, Reagan, Palestine,
[D]terror on the airline
[Em]Ayatollahs in Iran, [C]Russians in Afghanistan
[G]"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride,
[D]heavy metal, suicide
[Em]Foreign debts, homeless vets,
[C]AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
[G]Hypodermics on the shores,
[D]China's under martial law
[Em]Rock and roller Cola wars,

[Chorus 5]
I can't take it anymore
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
It was [Em]always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
But when [G]we are gone
It will [C]still burn on, and [G]on, and on
and [D]on and on and [Em]on and on and on[C]
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
It was [G]always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning

[Outro 1]
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
No we [Em]didn't light it
But we [C]tried to fight it
[G]We didn't start the [D]fire
It was [G]always burning
Since the [C]world's been turning
[Repeat and fade]