Song Name: | We Didn't Start The Fire | By: | Billy Joel |
Posted By: | gatman | Difficulty: | Any |
Key: | G | Genre: | Rock |
Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
Created: | 2011-11-15 22:56:53 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
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5 5 5 5 5 5 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 -4 Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 4 4 4 South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television -4 -4-4-4 -4 -4-4-4 5 4 4 4 4 North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe. -4 5 5 5 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 -4 4 4 Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye" -4 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen -6-6-6-6 -6-6-6-6 -6-6-6-6 -6 6 Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye. CHORUS: 6 6 6 -6 7 -8 8 We didn't start the fire -6 7 -8 8 -8 7 It was always burning -6 6 -8 8 -8 7 Since the world's been turning 6 6 6 -6 7 -8 8 We didn't start the fire -6 7 -8 8 -8 7 No we didn't light it -6 6 -8 8 -8 7 But we tried to fight it -4 5 5 5 5 5 5 -4 -4 -4 -4-4-4-4 Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 4 4 Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc -4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Roy_ Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 4 4 4 Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock" 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 6 Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez CHORUS: 6 6 6 -6 7 -8 8 We didn't start the fire -6 7 -8 8 -8 7 It was always burning -6 6 -8 8 -8 7 Since the world's been turning 6 6 6 -6 7 -8 8 We didn't start the fire -6 7 -8 8 -8 7 No we didn't light it -6 6 -8 8 -8 7 But we tried to fight it -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -7 -6 6 6 Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai" -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -7 -6 6 6 Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide -4 5 5 5 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4-4-4 Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia -4-4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 -4 4 Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go -4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 6 Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo CHORUS: 6 6 6 -6 7 -8 8 We didn't start the fire -6 7 -8 8 -8 7 It was always burning -6 6 -8 8 -8 7 Since the world's been turning 6 6 6 -6 7 -8 8 We didn't start the fire -6 7 -8 8 -8 7 No we didn't light it -6 6 -8 8 -8 7 But we tried to fight it -4 5 5 5 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land" -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 4 4 4 4 Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion -4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 4 4 4 4 Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex 5 5 5 5 5 5 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 J.F.K., blown away, what else do I have to say CHORUS: 6 6 6 -6 7 -8 8 We didn't start the fire -6 7 -8 8 -8 7 It was always burning -6 6 -8 8 -8 7 Since the world's been turning 6 6 6 -6 7 -8 8 We didn't start the fire -6 7 -8 8 -8 7 No we didn't light it -6 6 -8 8 -8 7 But we tried to fight it -4 5 5 5 5 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, back again -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 4 4 4 Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock -4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide, 5 5 5 5 5 5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law -6 -6 -6 -6 -6-6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore CHORUS: 6 6 6 -6 7 -8 8 We didn't start the fire -6 7 -8 8 -8 7 It was always burning -6 6 -8 8 -8 7 Since the world's been turning 6 6 6 -6 7 -8 8 We didn't start the fire -6 7 -8 8 -8 7 No we didn't light it -6 6 -8 8 -8 7 But we tried to fight it... 6 6 6 -6 7 -8 8 We didn't start the fire -6 7 -8 8 -8 But when we are gone -6 7 -8 8 -8 8 -8 8 -8 8 -8 Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on... |