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We Didnt Start The Fire
Billy Joel
Key : G
Capo
[Intro]
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G | G | D | Em 
C | G | D | Em 
C

[Refrain (1)]
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G | D | Em | C 
G | D | Bm 
C

[Verse 1]
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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

[Refrain (2)]
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G | D | Em | C 

[Verse 2]
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G                  D
Rosenbergs, HBomb, 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 (1)]
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G                     D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
G                     D
We didn't start the fire
       Bm                      C
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

[Verse 3]
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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"
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, Khrushchev
Em                            C
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

[Chorus (2)]
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G                     D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
G                     D
We didn't start the fire
       Bm                      Am
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

[Bridge]
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C                       Am
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Em                   D
Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai,
C                           Am
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Em                     D
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide

[Verse 4]
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G                    D
Buddy Holly, BenHur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Em                  C
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a nogo
G                 D
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Em                      C
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo



[Verse 5]
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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
J. F. K. blown away, what else do I have to say?



[Verse 6]
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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
G                             D
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Em                            C
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
G                          D
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Em
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

[Chorus (3)]
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G                     D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
G                     D
We didn't start the fire
         Bm
But when we are gone
        C                     G               D
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on,
               Em                 C
And on, and on,  and on, and on...
G                     D
We didn't start the fire
       Bm                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
G                     D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                      C
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
G                     D
We didn't start the fire
       Bm                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
G                     D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                      C
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

[Outro (Fade Out)]
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G                     D
We didn't start the fire
       Bm                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
G                     D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                      C
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
G                     D
We didn't start the fire
It was
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