Key: G
Introduction:
G D
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
Am C
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
G D
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
Am C
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
G D
Rosenberg' s, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Am C
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
G D
Eisenhower, vaccine, England' s got a new queen
Am C
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
G D
We didn' t start the fire
Am
It was always burning,
C
Since the world' s been turning
G D
We didn' t start the fire
Am
No we didn' t light it,
C
But we tried to fight it
G D
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Am C
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
G D
Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Am C
Dien Bien, Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
G D
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn' s got a winning team
Am C
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
G D
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Am C
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
G D
We didn' t start the fire
Am
It was always burning,
C
Since the world' s been turning
G D
We didn' t start the fire
Am
No we didn' t light it,
C
But we tried to fight it
Am Em
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Am D
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Am Em
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Am D D2 D
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
G D
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Am C
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
G D
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Am C
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
G D
We didn' t start the fire
Am
It was always burning,
C
Since the world' s been turning
G D
We didn' t start the fire
Am
No we didn' t light it,
C
But we tried to fight it
G D
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Am C
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
G D
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatle mania
Am C
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
G D
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
Am C
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
G D
We didn' t start the fire
Am
It was always burning,
C
Since the world' s been turning
G D
We didn' t start the fire
Am
No we didn' t light it,
C
But we tried to fight it
G D
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Am C
Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
G D
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Am C
Ayatollah' s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
G D
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Am C
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
G D
Hypodermics on the shores, China' s under martial law
Am C
Rock and roller cola wars, I can' t take it anymore
G D
We didn' t start the fire
Am
It was always burning,
C
Since the world' s been turning
G D
We didn' t start the fire
Am
But when we are gone
C G D Am C
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on x3
* It has been suggested that Em sounds better than Am