Billy Joel - We Didnt Start The Fire

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billy joel – we didn’t start the fire
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tabbed by : stefan
email : stehphyn@yahoo . com

tuning : standard ( eadgbe )

piano intro riff :
E | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7 – – – – – – |
B | – – – – – – – – – – – 8 – 10 – – – – – – – – – – – – – 8 – 10 – – – – 10 – – 8 – – – 8 – 10 – – – – 10 – 8 – |
G | – 7 – – 7 – 7 – 9 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 9 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 9 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
D | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
A | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
E | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |

verse :
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

[ piano intro riff ] 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

chorus :
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

Bm
no we didn’t light it

C
but we tried to fight it

verse :
G D
josef 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 D
davy crockett , peter pan , elvis presley , disneyland

G D
bardot , budapest , alabama , khrushchev

Em C
princess grace , peyton place , trouble in the suez

chorus :
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

Bm
no we didn’t light it

Am
but we tried to fight it

bridge :
C Am
little rock , pasternak , mickey mantle , kerouac

Em C
sputnik , zhou enlai , bridge on the river kwai

C Am
lebanon , charles de gaulle , california baseball ,

Em C
starkweather homicide , children of thalidomide

little guitar riff after bridge :
E | – 12 – – – – – 10 – – – – – 8 – – – – – – – – – 12 – – – – – 10 – – – – – 8 – – – – – – – – – |
B | – – – – 13 – – – – – 12 – – – – 10 – – – – – – – – – 13 – – – – – 12 – – – – 10 – – – – – – |
G | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
D | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
A | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
E | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |

verse :
G D
buddy holly , ben hur , space monkey , mafia

Em C
hula hoops , castro , edsel is a no – go

G D
u2 , syngman rhee , payola and kennedy

Em C
chubby checker , psycho , belgians in the congo

chorus :
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

Bm
no we didn’t light it

C
but we tried to fight it

verse :
G D
hemingway , eichmann , stranger in a strange land ,

Em C
dylan , berlin , bay of pigs invasion

G D
lawrence of arabia , british beatlemania

Em D
ole miss , john glenn , liston beats patterson

G D
pope paul , malcolm x , british politician se

xem C
j . F . k . blown away , what else do i have to say

chorus :
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

Bm
no we didn’t light it

C
but we tried to fight it

verse :
G D
birth control , ho chi minh , richard nixon back again

Em C
moonshot , woodstock , watergate , punk rock

G D
begin , reagan , palestine , terror on the airline

Em C
ayatollah’s in iran , russians in afghanistan

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

Em C
rock and roller cola wars , i can’t take it anymore

chorus :
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

Bm
no we didn’t light it

C
but we tried to fight it

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

Bm
no we didn’t light it

C
but we tried to fight it

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

Bm
no we didn’t light it

C
but we tried to fight it