[N.C.]

[D]

[D]　[Bm]　[C]　[D]　[Bm]　[C]

 

[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

 

[D]　[Bm]　[C]

 

[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

 

[D]We didn't start the fire

It was [Em]always burning

Since the [C]world's been turning

[D]We didn't start the fire

No we [C]didn't light it

But we tried to fight it

 

[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,

Khrushchev

[Em]Princess Grace, Peyton Place,

[C]Trouble in the Suez

 

[D]We didn't start the fire

It was [Em]always burning

Since the [C]world's been turning

[D]We didn't start the fire

No we [C]didn't light it

But we tried to fight it

 

[C]Little Rock, Pasternak, [Am]Mickey

Mantle, Kerouac

[Em]Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, [D]Bridge On The

River Kwai

 

[C]Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle,

[Am]California baseball

[Em]Starkweather, Homicide, [D]Children of

Thalidomide

 

[N.C.]Ah Haha

 

[G]Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, [D]Space

Monkey, Mafia

[Em]Hula Hoops, Castro, [C]Edsel is a

no-go

 

[G]U-2, Syngman Rhee, [D]payola and

Kennedy

[Em]Chubby Checker, Psycho, [C]Belgians

in the Congo

 

[D]We didn't start the fire

It was [Em]always burning

Since the [C]world's been turning

[D]We didn't start the fire

No we [C]didn't light it

But we tried to fight it

 

[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]J.F.K. blown away, [C]what else do I

have to say

 

[D]We didn't start the fire

It was [Em]always burning

Since the [C]world's been turning

[D]We didn't start the fire

No we [C]didn't light it

But we tried to fight it

 

[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]Ayatollah's in lran, [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 [N.C.]Cola Wars, I can't

[N.C.]take it anymore

 

[D]We didn't start the fire

It was [Em]always burning

Since the [C]world's been turning

[D]We didn't start the fire

But when [C]we are gone

Will it still burn on, and [D]on, and on,

and on, and on, and [Em]on, and on, and [C]on, and on,

and

 

[D]We didn't start the fire

We [C]didn't start the fire

[D]We didn't start the fire

We [Em]didn't start the fire

We [C]didn't start the fire

[D]We didn't start the fire

We [C]didn't start the fire

[D]We didn't start the fire

We [Em]didn't start the fire

We [C]didn't start the fire

[D]We didn't start the fire

We [C]didn't start the fire

[D]We didn't start the fire

We [Em]didn't start the fire

We [C]didn't start the fire