TITLE = We Didnt Start The Fire
CATEGORY = Rock
Artist=Billy Joel
Speed = Text1
Beats = 4
Measures = 2
Font = 40
NOTE = ZZZZ394
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Intro...
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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
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South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
G                           D
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
Am                                  C
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
G                           D
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Am                                  C
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
G                           D
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Am                                  C
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
G                    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
         C
But we tried to fight it
G                           D
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Am                                  C
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
G                           D
Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Am                                  C
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
G                           D
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Am                                  C
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
G                           D
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Am                                  C
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
G                    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
         C
But we tried to fight it
Am                      Em
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Am                      D
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Am                           Em
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Am                      D                      D
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide 
G                        D
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Am                   C
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
G                           D
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Am                                  C
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
G                    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
         C
But we tried to fight it
G                           D
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Am                                  C
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
G                           D
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Am                                  C
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
G                           D
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
Am
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
G                    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
         C
But we tried to fight it
G                           D
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Am                                  C
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
G                           D
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Am                                  C
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
G                           D
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Am                                  C
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
G                           D
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Am
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
G                     D
We didn't start the fire
         Am
But when we are gone
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Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...