Intro, really unclear whether that’s a Iadd9 or a V or a something-else-over-something-else.
Writing it here as a Iadd9, but play with it.
G | Gadd9 | Em7 | C |
x 2 |
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 |
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 |
G | D |
We didn’t start the | fire |
Em | C | |
It was | always burning since the | world’s been turning |
G | D |
We didn’t start the | fire |
Em | |
No we | didn’t light it |
C | |
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, Khrushchev |
Em | C |
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, | trouble in the Suez |
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 |
Em | |
No we | didn’t light it |
C | |
But we | tried to fight it |
Bridge
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 |
Stark weather, homicide, | children of thalidomide |
D |
Oh-oh, oh-oh |
G | D |
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, | space monkey, Mafia |
Em | C |
Hula hoops, Castro, | Edsel is a no-go |
G | D |
U-2, Syngman Rhee, | payola and Kennedy |
Em | C |
Chubby Checker, Psycho, | Belgians in the Congo |
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 |
Em | |
No we | didn’t light it |
C | |
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 Beatle mania |
Em | C |
Ole Miss, John Glenn, | Liston beats Patterson |
G | D |
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, | British politician sex |
Hard stop on “what else”
Em | C |
JFK, blown away, | what else do I have to say? |
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 |
Em | |
No we | didn’t light it |
C | |
But we | tried to fight it |
G | D |
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, | Richard Nixon back again |
Em | C |
Moon shot, Woodstock, | Watergate, punk rock |
G | D |
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, | terror on the airline |
Em | C |
Ayatollah’s in Iran, | Russians in Afghanistan |
Melody stays on the same note all the way to “AIDS”
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 |
Hard stop on “rock”
Em | C |
Rock and roller cola wars, | I can’t take it anymore |
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 |
Em | |
But when | we are gone |
C | G | D | Em | C | |
It will | still burn on, and | on, and | on, and | on, and | on |
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 |
Em | |
No we | didn’t light it |
C | |
But we | tried to fight it |