We Didn't Start the Fire piano leadsheet with chords

Level 5G144 BPMBilly Joel
Getting the sheet readyPip is finding the first note.

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China,

Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell,

Joe DiMaggio.

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television,

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe.

Rosenbergs, ly, HBomb, Sugar Ray, key,

Panmunjom, Branlado, The King and I,

and The Catcher in the Rye.

Eisenhower, vacman cine, England's got a new nedy.

Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye.

We didn't start the fire.

It was always burning since the world's been turning.

We didn't start the fire.

No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev,

Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist in Bloc.

sion. Roy rence of A Juan PerĂ³n,

Toscanini, mani cron.

Dien Bien Phu Falls, "Rock Around the Clock."

terson. Einstein, James colm Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team,

Davy K.

ett, blown away.

Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev, Princess Grace,

Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez.

We didn't start the fire.

It was always burning since the world's been turning.

We didn't start the fire.

No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac,

Sputnik, Chou EnLai, Bridge on the River Kwai,

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball,

Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide.

Oh, What else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire.

It was always burning since the world's been turning.

We didn't start the fire.

No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again.

Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punk Rock.

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline.

Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan.

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal,

suicide, foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS,

crack, Bernie Goetz.

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law.

Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore.

We didn't start the fire.

It was always burning since the world's been turning.

We didn't start the fire.

But when we are gone will it still burn on,

and on, and on,

and on, and on,

and on, and on,

and on?

We didn't start the fire.

It was always burning since the world's been turning.

We didn't start the fire.

No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.

We didn't start the fire.

It was always burning since the world's been turning.

We didn't start the fire.

No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.

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The Song Kit has everything for practicing away from here:

  • Full sheet, both hands
  • Right hand melody sheet
  • Leadsheet
  • Practice Pack
  • MP3, and MP3 with click
  • MIDI file
  • Lyrics and chords
Tip: get the words and the tune together first, then add the chords with your left hand.

Song info

We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel is a level 5 of 5 piano arrangement in the key of G at 144 BPM. A leadsheet puts the words, the melody and the chord names together, so you can play the tune with your right hand and the chords with your left.

Level
5 of 5
Key
G
Tempo
144 BPM
Chords
Am Am7 C Cpow Csus2 D Dpow Dsus4
Artist
Billy Joel
Genre
Pop
Style
Pop upbeat
Mood
Energetic

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