4 Chords used in the song: G, D, Am, C

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G
D
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie RayAm
C
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggioG
D
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, TelevisionAm
C
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn MonroeG
D
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, PanmunjomAm
C
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The RyeG
D
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queenAm
C
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbyeG
D
We didn't start the fire
Am
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G
D
We didn't start the fire
Am
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight itG
D
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and ProkofievAm
C
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist BlocG
D
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, DacronAm
C
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the ClockG
D
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning teamAm
C
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, DisneylandG
D
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, KhrushchevAm
C
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
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 itG
D
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, KerouacAm
C
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River KwaiG
D
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseballAm
C
Starkweather, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide...G
D
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, MafiaAm
C
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-goG
D
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and KennedyAm
C
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
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 itG
D
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange LandAm
C
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasionG
D
Lawrence of Arabia, British BeatlemaniaAm
C
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats PattersonG
D
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician SexAm
C
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?
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 itG
D
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back againAm
C
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rockG
D
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airlineAm
C
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in AfghanistanG
D
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicideAm
C
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie GoetzG
D
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial lawAm
C
Rock and Roller Cola wars, I 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
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
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
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
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About this song: We Didn't Start The Fire
"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song by Billy Joel. Its lyrics include brief, rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events between January 1949 (Joel was born on May 9 of that year) and 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front. The song was a No. 1 hit in the US. It peaked at #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Chart in the Autumn of 1989.Joel got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. He was in a recording studio Read more on Last.fm.