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WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE Words & Music by Billy Joel Album: Storm Front (1989) INTRO: [G] [D] [Am] [C]
GHarry Truman, Doris Day, DRed China, Johnnie Ray AmSouth Pacific, Walter Winchell, CJoe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye" Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
GWe didn't start the fDire It was alAmways burning Since the wCorld's been turning GWe didn't start the fDire No we dAmidn't light it But we tCried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock" Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

C:chorus

 AmLittle Rock, Pasternak, EmMickey Mantle, Kerouac AmSputnik, Chou En-Lai, "DBridge on the River Kwai" AmLebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, EmCalifornia baseball AmStarkweather, homicide, Dchildren of thalidomide D D
GBuddy Holly, "Ben Hur", Dspace monkey, Mafia AmHula hoops, Castro, CEdsel is a no-go U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

C:chorus

 Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land" Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex AmJFK,

N.C.

blown away, what else do I have to say

C:chorus

 Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law AmRock

N.C.

and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
GWe didn't start the fDire But when Amwe are gone Will it Cstill burn on, and Gon, and Don, and Amon...C