We Didn't Start the Fire

(G5)Harry Truman, Doris Day, (Dsus)Red China,

Johnnie Ray, (Em7)South Pacific, Walter Winchell,

(Csus2)Joe DiMaggio.

(G5)Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, (Dsus)Studebaker, television,

(Em7)North Korea, South Korea, (Csus2)Marilyn Monroe.

(G5)Rosenbergs, ly, HBomb, (Dsus)Sugar Ray, key,

Panmunjom, (Em7)Branlado, The King and I,

(Csus2)and The Catcher in the Rye.

(G5)Eisenhower, vacman cine, (Dsus)England's got a new nedy.

(Em7)Marciano, Liberace, (Csus2)Santayana goodbye.

(Dsus)We didn't start the fire.

It was (Em7)always burning since the (C)world's been turning.

(Dsus)We didn't start the fire.

No, we (G)didn't light it, but we (Csus2)tried to fight it.

(G5)Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, (Dsus)Nasser and Prokofiev,

(Em7)Rockefeller, Campanella, (Csus2)Communist in Bloc.

sion. (G5)Roy rence of A Juan Perón,

(Dsus)Toscanini, mani cron.

(Em7)Dien Bien Phu Falls, (Csus2)"Rock Around the Clock."

terson. (G5)Einstein, James colm Dean, (Dsus)Brooklyn's got a winning team,

(Em7)Davy K.

ett, blown away.

Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

(G5)Bardot, Budapest, (D)Alabama, Khrushchev, (E5)Princess Grace,

Peyton Place, (C)trouble in the Suez.

(Dsus)We didn't start the fire.

It was (Em7)always burning since the (C)world's been turning.

(Dsus)We didn't start the fire.

No, we (G)didn't light it, but we (Am7)tried to fight it.

(C)Little Rock, Pasternak, (Am)Mickey Mantle, Kerouac,

(Em)Sputnik, Chou EnLai, (D)Bridge on the River Kwai,

(C)Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, (Am)California baseball,

(Em)Starkweather, homicide, (D5)children of thalidomide.

Oh, (C5)What else do I have to say?

(Dsus)We didn't start the fire.

It was (Em7)always burning since the (C)world's been turning.

(Dsus)We didn't start the fire.

No, we (G)didn't light it, but we (C)tried to fight it.

(G5)Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, (Dsus)Richard Nixon back again.

(Em7)Moonshot, Woodstock, (C5)Watergate, Punk Rock.