We Didn't Start The Fire Uke tab by Billy Joel (Baritone Chords)

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

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Key: G, EmChords
G baritone chordG                         D baritone chordD
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
We didn't start the fire
Am baritone chordAm
It was always burning
C baritone chordC
Since the world's been turning
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
We didn't start the fire
Am baritone chordAm
No we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it

G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
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 it
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Starkweather, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide...

G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
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 it
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician Sex
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
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 it
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
G baritone chordG D baritone chordD
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Am baritone chordAm C baritone chordC
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

Uke tab by , 07 Mar 2017

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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.

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