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BILLY JOEL - We Didn't Start the Fire
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Tabbed by: Stefan
Email: stehphyn@yahoo.com
Tuning: Standard (EADGBe)
Piano intro riff:
e|----------------7-----------------7---------------7------|
B|-----------8-10-------------8-10----10--8---8-10----10-8-|
G|-7--7-7-9-----------------9---------------9--------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
Verse:
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
[Piano Intro Riff ] G D Em C
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
Chorus:
G D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G D
We didn't start the fire
Bm
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
Verse:
G D
Josef 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, Khrushchev
Em C
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
Chorus:
G D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G D
We didn't start the fire
Bm
No we didn't light it
Am
But we tried to fight it
Bridge:
C Am
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Em D
Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai
C Am
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball,
Em D
Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Little guitar riff after bridge:
e|-12-----10-----8---------12-----10-----8---------|
B|----13-----12----10---------13-----12----10------|
G|-------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------|
Verse:
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
Em C
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
Chorus:
G D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G D
We didn't start the fire
Bm
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
Verse:
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
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say
Chorus:
G D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G D
We didn't start the fire
Bm
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
Verse:
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 shores, China's under martial law
Em C
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
Chorus:
G D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G D
We didn't start the fire
Bm
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
G D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G D
We didn't start the fire
Bm
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
G D
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G D
We didn't start the fire
Bm
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
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