Tablature we didnt start thefire - Billy Joel

          



 {t:We Didn't Start The Fire}

  {st:Billy Joel}

  

  {c:intro}

  [G]  [D]  [Am]  [C]

  [G]Harry Truman, Doris Day, [D]Red China, Johnnie Ray

  [Am]South Pacific, Walter Winchell, [C]Joe DiMaggio

  Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television

  North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

  

  {c:repeat intro}

  

  Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

  Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

  Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen

  Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

  

  {c:chorus (+intro)}

  {soc}

  [G]We didn't start the f[D]ire

  It was al[Am]ways burning

  Since the w[C]orld's been turning

  [G]We didn't start the f[D]ire

  No we d[Am]idn't light it

  But we t[C]ried to fight it

  {eoc}

  

  Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

  Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

  Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron

  Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

  Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

  Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

  Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev

  Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

  

  {c:chorus}

  

  [Am]Little Rock, Pasternak, [Em]Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

  [Am]Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "[D]Bridge on the River Kwai"

  [Am]Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, [Em]California baseball

  [Am]Starkweather, homicide, [D]children of thalidomide [D] [D]

  

  [G]Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", [D]space monkey, Mafia

  [Am]Hula hoops, Castro, [C]Edsel is a no-go

  U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy

  Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

  

  {c:chorus}

  

  Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"

  Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

  "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania

  Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

  Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex

  [Am]JFK, [N.C.]blown away, what else do I have to say

  

  {c:chorus}

  

  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

  [Am]Rock [N.C.]and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

  

  [G]We didn't start the f[D]ire

  But when [Am]we are gone

  Will it [C]still burn on, and [G]on, and [D]on, and [Am]on...[C]

  

  {c:repeat chorus 'till fade}

   


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 We didnt start thefire, de Billy joel 

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