We Didn’t Start the Fire

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| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | Em7 | Csus2 || Dsus2 | Dsus2 | G/B | Csus2 |

| 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

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| G | D |Rosenbergs, H-bomb, 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

| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | Em7 | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | G/B | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

| 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, Krushchev| Em | C |Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | Em7 | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | G/B | Am7 |We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

| C | Am |Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac| Em | D |Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"| C | Am |Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball| Em | D |Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

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| G | D |Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafia| Em | C |Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go| G | D |U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy| E | C |Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | Em7 | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | G/B | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

| 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 |JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say?

| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | Em7 | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | G/B | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

| 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 shore, China's under martial law| Em N.C. | N.C. |Rock and roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore

| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | Em7 | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | G/B | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire But when we are gone It will still burn on, | Dsus2 | Dsus2 | Em7 | Csus2 |and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | G/B | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | Em7 | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | G/B | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | Em7 | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | G/B | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning| Dsus2 | Dsus2 | Em7 | Csus2 |We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it