Billy Joel – We Didnt Start The Fire chords

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                    BILLY JOEL - We Didn't Start the Fire
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Tabbed by: Stefan
Email: stehphyn@yahoo.com

Tuning: Standard (EADGBe)


Piano intro riff:e|----------------7-----------------7---------------7------|B|-----------8-10-------------8-10----10--8---8-10----10-8-|  G|-7--7-7-9-----------------9---------------9--------------|D|---------------------------------------------------------|A|---------------------------------------------------------|E|---------------------------------------------------------|


Verse:
G                        DHarry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray

Em                              CSouth Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

G                            DJoe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television

Em                        CNorth Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe


[Piano Intro Riff ] G D Em C


G                   DRosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

Em                        CBrando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"

G                    DEisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen

Em                  CMarciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye



Chorus:
G                  DWe didn't start the fire

       EmIt was always burning

          CSince the world's been turning

G                  DWe didn't start the fire

      BmNo we didn't light it

       CBut we tried to fight it

 

Verse:
G                       DJosef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

Em                       CRockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

G                     DRoy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron

Em                   CDien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

G                     DEinstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

Em                        DDavy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

G                 DBardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev

Em                            CPrincess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez



Chorus:
G                  DWe didn't start the fire

       EmIt was always burning

          CSince the world's been turning

G                  DWe didn't start the fire

      BmNo we didn't light it

       AmBut we tried to fight it



Bridge:
C                       AmLittle Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

Em                   CSputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai

C                           AmLebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball,

Em                     CStarkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide


Little guitar riff after bridge:e|-12-----10-----8---------12-----10-----8---------|B|----13-----12----10---------13-----12----10------|  G|-------------------------------------------------|D|-------------------------------------------------|A|-------------------------------------------------|E|-------------------------------------------------|


Verse:
G                     DBuddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia

Em                  CHula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

G                 DU2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy

Em                      CChubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo



Chorus:
G                  DWe didn't start the fire

       EmIt was always burning

          CSince the world's been turning

G                  DWe didn't start the fire

      BmNo we didn't light it

       CBut we tried to fight it



Verse:
G                    DHemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,

Em             CDylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

G                   DLawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania

Em                    DOle Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

G                     DPope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex

Em                 CJ.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say



Chorus:
G                  DWe didn't start the fire

       EmIt was always burning

          CSince the world's been turning

G                  DWe didn't start the fire

      BmNo we didn't light it

       CBut we tried to fight it



Verse:
G                           DBirth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again

Em                   CMoonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

G                         DBegin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline

Em                   CAyatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

G                             DWheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide

Em                            CForeign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

G                          DHypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law

Em                         CRock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore



Chorus:
G                  DWe didn't start the fire

       EmIt was always burning

          CSince the world's been turning

G                  DWe didn't start the fire

      BmNo we didn't light it

       CBut we tried to fight it

G                  DWe didn't start the fire

       EmIt was always burning

          CSince the world's been turning

G                  DWe didn't start the fire

      BmNo we didn't light it

       CBut we tried to fight it

G                  DWe didn't start the fire

       EmIt was always burning

          CSince the world's been turning

G                  DWe didn't start the fire

      BmNo we didn't light it

       CBut we tried to fight it