Billy Joel We Didn't Start The Fire Intro (piano) e--------------------------------------------- b-------8-10-12---8-10-12-10-8---8-10-12-10-8- g-7-7-9---------9--------------9--------------<-- REPEAT d--------------------------------------------- a--------------------------------------------- E--------------------------------------------- Verse

^GHarry Truman, Doris Day, R^Ded China, Johnnie Ray ^ESouth Pacific, Walter Winchell, J^Coe DiMaggio

^GJoe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, S^Dtudebaker, television ^ENorth Korea, South Korea, ^CMarilyn Monroe

INTRO RIFF

^GRosenbergs, H-bomb, S^Dugar Ray, Panmunjom ^EBrando, The King and I, ^Cand The Catcher in the Rye

^GEisenhower, vaccine, ^DEngland's got a new queen ^EMarciano, Liberace, S^Cantayana goodbye

CHORUS (PLAY THE INTRO) We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

^GJoseph Stalin, Malenkov, ^DNasser aand Prokofiev ^ERockefeller, Campanella, ^CCommunist Bloc

^GRoy hn, Juan Peron, T^Doscanini, dacron ^EDien Bien Phu falls, ^CRock Around the Clock

^GEinstein, James Dean, ^DBrooklyn's got a winning team ^EDavy Crockett, Peter Pan, ^CElvis Presley, Disneyland

^GBardot, Budapest, ^DAlabama, Krushchev ^EPrincess Grace, Peyton Place, ^Ctrouble in the Suez

^GBuddy Holly, Ben Hur, ^Dspace monkey, Mafia ^EHula hoops, Castro, ^CEdsel is a no-go

^GU-2, Syngman Rhee, ^Dpayola and Kennedy ^EChubby Checker, Psycho, ^CBelgians in the Congo

CHORUS

^GHemingway, Eichmann, ^DStranger in a Strange Land ^EDylan, Berlin, ^CBay of Pigs invasion

^GLawrence of Arabia, ^DBritish Beatlemania ^EOle Miss, John Glenn, ^CListon beats Patterson

^GPope Paul, Malcolm X, ^DBritish politician sex ^EJFK, blown away, ^Cwhat else do I have to say

CHORUS

^GBirth control, Ho Chi Minh, ^DRichard Nixon back again ^EMoonshot, Woodstock^C, Watergate, punk rock

^GBegin, Reagan, Palestine, ^Dterror on the airline ^EAyatollah's in Iran, ^CRussians in Afghanistan

^GWheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, ^Dheavy metal, suicide ^EForeign debts, homeless vets, ^CAIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz

^GHypodermics on the shores, ^DChina's under martial law ^ERock and roller cola wars, ^CI can't take it anymore

CHORUS We didn't start the fire But when we are gone It still burn on, and on, and on, and on ************ not sure of the part surrounded by *'s but it sounds ok