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 |