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We Didn't Start the Fire Billy Joel

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  • Guitar chords The Tonal Key G
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intro G D | Em C | x2

1. GHarry Truman, Doris Day, DRed China, Johnnie Ray
EmSouth Pacific, Walter Winchell, CJoe DiMaggio
GJoe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, DStudebaker, television
EmNorth Korea, South Korea, CMarilyn Monroe

instrumental G D | Em C

2. GRosenbergs, H-bomb, DSugar Ray, Panmunjom
EmBrando, "The King and I" Cand "The Catcher in the Rye"
GEisenhower, vaccine, DEngland's got a new queen
EmMarciano, Liberace, CSantayana goodbye

chorus GWe didn't start the Dfire
It was Emalways burning since the Cworld's been turning
GWe didn't start the Dfire
No we Emdidn't light it, but we Ctried to fight it

3. GJoseph Stalin, Malenkov, DNasser and Prokofiev
EmRockefeller, Campanella, CCommunist Bloc
GRoy hn, Juan Peron, DToscanini, dacron
EmDien Bien Phu falls, C"Rock Around the Clock"

4. GEinstein, James Dean, DBrooklyn's got a winning team
EmDavy Crockett, Peter Pan, CElvis Presley, Disneyland
GBardot, Budapest, DAlabama, Krushchev
EmPrincess Grace, "Peyton Place", Ctrouble in the Suez

chorus GWe didn't start the Dfire
It was Emalways burning since the Cworld's been turning
GWe didn't start the Dfire
No we Emdidn't light it, but we Ctried to fight it

5. CLittle Rock, Pasternak, AmMickey Mantle, Kerouac
EmSputnik, Chou En-Lai, D"Bridge on the River Kwai"
CLebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, AmCalifornia baseball
EmStarkweather, homicide, Dchildren of thalidomide

6. GBuddy Holly, "Ben Hur", Dspace monkey, Mafia
EmHula hoops, Castro, CEdsel is a no-go
GU-2, Syngman Rhee, Dpayola and Kennedy
EmChubby Checker, "Psycho", CBelgians in the Congo

chorus GWe didn't start the Dfire
It was Emalways burning since the Cworld's been turning
GWe didn't start the Dfire
No we Emdidn't light it, but we Ctried to fight it

7. GHemingway, Eichmann, D"Stranger in a Strange Land"
EmDylan, Berlin, CBay of Pigs invasion
G"Lawrence of Arabia", DBritish Beatlemania
EmOle Miss, John Glenn, CListon beats Patterson

8. GPope Paul, Malcolm X, DBritish politician sex
EmJFK, blown away, Cwhat else do I have to say

chorus GWe didn't start the Dfire
It was Emalways burning since the Cworld's been turning
GWe didn't start the Dfire
No we Emdidn't light it, but we Ctried to fight it

9. GBirth control, Ho Chi Minh, DRichard Nixon back again
EmMoonshot, Woodstoock, CWatergate, punk rock
GBegin, Reagan, Palestine, Dterror on the airline
EmAyatollah's in Iran, CRussians in Afghanistan

10. G"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, Dheavy metal, suicide
EmForeign debts, homeless vets, CAIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
GHypodermics on the shores, DChina's under martial law
EmRock and roller cola wars, CI can't take it anymore

chorus GWe didn't start the Dfire
It was Emalways burning since the Cworld's been turning
GWe didn't start the Dfire
But when Emwe are gone, will it Cstill burn on, and Don, and on, and on… Em C

GWe didn't start the Dfire
It was Emalways burning since the Cworld's been turning
GWe didn't start the Dfire
No we Emdidn't light it, but we Ctried to fight it
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Information about the Song

Tekst utworu zawiera ponad 100 nagłówków z gazet dot. wydarzeń pomiędzy 1949 (rokiem urodzenia Joel'a) a 1989 (rokiem wydania albumu "Storm Front", na którym znalazł się utwór). [en.wikipedia]
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