Intro G D Em C x 2

G Harry Truman, Doris Day, D Red China, Johnnie Ray
Em South Pacific, Walter Winchell, C Joe DiMaggio
G Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, D Studebaker, television
Em North Korea, South Korea, C Marilyn Monroe

Inter G D Em C

G Rosenbergs, H-bomb, D Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Em Brando, The King and I, and C The Catcher in the Rye
G Eisenhower, vaccine, D England’s got a new queen
Em Marciano, Liberace, C Santayana goodbye

G We didn’t start the D fire
It was Em always burning, since the C world’s been turning
G We didn’t start the D fire
No we Em didn’t light it, but we C tried to fight it

G Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, D Nasser and Prokofiev
Em Rockefeller, Campanella, C Communist Bloc
G Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, D Toscanini, dacron
Em Dien Bien Phu falls, C Rock Around the Clock

G Einstein, James Dean, D Brooklyn’s got a winning team
Em Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, C Elvis Presley, Disneyland
G Bardot, Budapest, D Alabama, Krushchev
Em Princess Grace, Peyton Place, C trouble in the Suez

G We didn’t start the D fire
It was Em always burning, since the C world’s been turning
G We didn’t start the D fire
No we Em didn’t light it, but we C tried to fight it

C Little Rock, Pasternak, Am Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Em Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, D Bridge on the River Kwai
C Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, Am California baseball
Em Starkweather, homicide, D children of thalidomide

G Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, D space monkey, Mafia
Em Hula hoops, Castro, C Edsel is a no-go
G U2, Syngman Rhee, D payola and Kennedy
Em Chubby Checker, Psycho, C Belgians in the Congo

G We didn’t start the D fire
It was Em always burning, since the C world’s been turning
G We didn’t start the D fire
No we Em didn’t light it, but we C tried to fight it

G Hemingway, Eichmann, D Stranger in a Strange Land
Em Dylan, Berlin, C Bay of Pigs invasion
G Lawrence of Arabia, D British Beatlemania
Em Ole Miss, John Glenn, C Liston beats Patterson
G Pope Paul, Malcolm X, D British politician sex
Em J.F.K., blown away, what else do I have to say

G We didn’t start the D fire
It was Em always burning, since the C world’s been turning
G We didn’t start the D fire
No we Em didn’t light it, but we C tried to fight it

G Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, D Richard Nixon back again
Em Moonshot, Woodstock, C Watergate, punk rock
G Begin, Reagan, Palestine, D terror on the airline
Em Ayatollah’s in Iran, C Russians in Afghanistan

G Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, D heavy metal, suicide
Em Foreign debts, homeless vets, C A.I.D.S., crack, Bernie Goetz
G Hypodermics on the shores, D China’s under martial law
Em Rock and roller cola wars, I can’t take it anymore

G We didn’t start the D fire
It was Em always burning, since the C world’s been turning
G We didn’t start the D fire
But when Em we are gone will it C still burn on, and on, and on, and on

G We didn’t start the D fire,
It was Em always burning, since the C world’s been turning,
G We didn’t start the D fire,
No we Em didn’t light it, but we C tried to fight it…