[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