Artist: | Billy Joel (English) |
User: | msyahnaz |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Default |
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Billy Joel – We Didn't Start The Fire
145 bpm 4/4 8th Note Strumming [Storm Front 1989]
Intro
G D Em C G D Em C
G D Em C G D Em C
Verse 1
G D
Harry Truman… Doris Day… Red China… Johnnie Ray…
Em C
South Pacific… Walter Winchell… Joe DiMaggio…
G D
Joe McCarthy… Richard Nixon… Studebaker… Television…
Em C
North Korea… South Korea… Marilyn Monroe…
Interlude
G D Em C
Verse 2
G D
Rosenbergs… H-bomb… Sugar Ray… Panmunjom…
Em C
Brando… "The King and I"… and "The Catcher in the Rye"…
G D
Eisenhower… Vaccine… England's got a new queen…
Em C
Marciano… Liberace… Santayana… Goodbye…
Chorus
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
It was always burning since the world's been turning…
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
No… We didn't light it but we tried to fight it…
Verse 3
G D
Joseph Stalin… Malenkov… Nasser and Prokofiev…
Em C
Rockefeller… Campanella… Communist Bloc…
G D
Roy Cohn… Juan Peron… Toscanini… Dacron…
Em C
Dien… Bien… Phu falls… "Rock Around the Clock"
Verse 4
G D
Einstein… James Dean… Brooklyn's got a winning team…
Em C
Davy Crockett… Peter Pan… Elvis Presley… Disneyland…
G D
Bardot… Budapest… Alabama… Krushchev…
Em C
Princess Grace… Peyton Place… Trouble in the Suez…
Chorus
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
It was always burning since the world's been turning…
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
No… We didn't light it but we tried to fight it…
Bridge
C Am
Little Rock… Pasternak… Mickey Mantle… Kerouac…
Em D
Sputnik… Chou En-Lai… "Bridge on the River Kwai"
C Am
Lebanon… Charles de Gaulle… California baseball…
Em D D D
Starkweather homicide… “Children of Thalidomide”…
Verse 5
G D
Buddy Holly… Ben Hur… Space monkey… Mafia…
Em C
Hula hoops… Castro… Edsel is a no-go…
G D
U2… Syngman Rhee… Payola and Kennedy…
Em C
Chubby Checker… Psycho… Belgians in the Congo…
Chorus
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
It was always burning since the world's been turning…
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
No… We didn't light it but we tried to fight it…
Verse 6
G D
Hemingway… Eichmann… "Stranger in a Strange Land"…
Em C
Dylan… Berlin… Bay Of Pigs Invasion…
G D
"Lawrence of Arabia”… British Beatlemania…
Em C
Ole Miss… John Glenn… Liston beats Patterson…
G D
Pope Paul… Malcolm X… British politician sex…
Em ^ C
JFK… Blown away… What else do I have to say…
Chorus
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
It was always burning since the world's been turning…
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
No… We didn't light it but we tried to fight it…
Verse 7
G D
Birth control… Ho Chi Minh… Richard Nixon back again…
Em C
Moonshot… Woodstock… Watergate… Punk rock…
G D
Begin… Reagan… Palestine… Terror on the airline…
Em C
Ayatollah's in Iran… Russians in Afghanistan…
Verse 8
G D
"Wheel of Fortune”… Sally Ride… Heavy metal suicide…
Em C
Foreign debts… Homeless vets… AIDS… Crack… Bernie Goet…
G D
Hypodermics on the shore… China's under martial law…
^ Em (C)
Rock and roller… Cola wars… I can't take it anymore…
Refrain
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
It was always burning since the world's been turning…
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
but when we are gone… It will still burn on…
G D Em C
and on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on…
Chorus
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
It was always burning since the world's been turning…
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
No… We didn't light it but we tried to fight it…
Outro (Fade Ending)
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C
It was always burning since the world's been turning…
G D
We didn't start the fi-iii-re…
Em C * G
No… We didn't light it but we tried to fight it…