Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire
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.
GGadd9Em7Cx 2
GHarry Truman, Doris Day, DRed China, Johnnie Ray
EmSouth Pacific, Walter Winchell, CJoe DiMaggio
GJoe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, DStudebaker, television
EmNorth Korea, South Korea, CMarilyn Monroe
GDEmC
GRosenbergs, H-bomb, DSugar Ray, Panmunjom
EmBrando, The King and I Cand The Catcher in the Rye
GEisenhower, vaccine, DEngland’s got a new queen
EmMarciano, Liberace, CSantayana goodbye
GWe didn’t start the Dfire
It was Emalways burning since the Cworld’s been turning
GWe didn’t start the Dfire
No we Emdidn’t light it
But we Ctried to fight it
GJoseph Stalin, Malenkov, DNasser and Prokofiev
EmRockefeller, Campanella, CCommunist Bloc
GRoy Cohn, Juan Peron, DToscanini, Dacron
EmDien... Bien... Phu... falls, CRock Around the Clock
GEinstein, James Dean, DBrooklyn’s got a winning team
EmDavy Crockett, Peter Pan, CElvis Presley, Disneyland
GBardot, Budapest, DAlabama, Khrushchev
EmPrincess Grace, Peyton Place, Ctrouble in the Suez
GWe didn’t start the Dfire
It was Emalways burning
Since the Cworld’s been turning
GWe didn’t start the Dfire
No we Emdidn’t light it
But we Ctried to fight it
Bridge
CLittle Rock, Pasternak, AmMickey Mantle, Kerouac
EmSputnik, Chou En-Lai, DBridge on the River Kwai
CLebanon, Charles de Gaulle, AmCalifornia baseball
EmStark weather, homicide, Dchildren of thalidomide
DOh-oh, oh-oh
GBuddy Holly, Ben Hur, Dspace monkey, Mafia
EmHula hoops, Castro, CEdsel is a no-go
GU-2, Syngman Rhee, Dpayola and Kennedy
EmChubby Checker, Psycho, CBelgians in the Congo
GWe didn’t start the Dfire
It was Emalways burning
Since the Cworld’s been turning
GWe didn’t start the Dfire
No we Emdidn’t light it
But we Ctried to fight it
GHemingway, Eichmann, DStranger in a Strange Land
EmDylan, Berlin, CBay of Pigs invasion
GLawrence of Arabia, DBritish Beatle mania
EmOle Miss, John Glenn, CListon beats Patterson
GPope Paul, Malcolm X, DBritish politician sex
Hard stop on “what else”
EmJFK, blown away, Cwhat else do I have to say?
GWe didn’t start the Dfire
It was Emalways burning
Since the Cworld’s been turning
GWe didn’t start the Dfire
No we Emdidn’t light it
But we Ctried to fight it
GBirth control, Ho Chi Minh, DRichard Nixon back again
EmMoon shot, Woodstock, CWatergate, punk rock
GBegin, Reagan, Palestine, Dterror on the airline
EmAyatollah’s in Iran, CRussians in Afghanistan
Melody stays on the same note all the way to “AIDS”
GWheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Dheavy metal, suicide
EmForeign debts, homeless vets, CAIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
GHypodermics on the shores, DChina’s under martial law
Hard stop on “rock”
EmRock and roller cola wars, CI can’t take it anymore
GWe didn’t start the Dfire
It was Emalways burning
Since the Cworld’s been turning
GWe didn’t start the Dfire
But when Emwe are gone
It will Cstill burn on, and Gon, and Don, and Emon, and Con
GWe didn’t start the Dfire
It was Emalways burning
Since the Cworld’s been turning
GWe didn’t start the Dfire
No we Emdidn’t light it
But we Ctried to fight it