We Didnt Start The Fire

We Didn't Start The Fire

Everyone seems to have this wrong,
so here we go...the CORRECT version
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MAIN LEAD RIFF (thanks Aussie, you got it right.)

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(this goes on for 16 bars until the rest of the music kicks in, and 
continues)
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OPENING CHORDS

G                       D
Em                      c
G                       D
B                       C
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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

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(INTRO RIFF is played for 4 bars)

G                       D
Em                      c
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VERSE

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
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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)

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
      B
No we didn't light it
       C
But we tried to fight it
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VERSE

G                        D
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Em                        C
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
G                    D
Roy hn, 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                         C
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
G                 D
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Em                             C
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez

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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)

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
      B
No we didn't light it
       A
But we tried to fight it

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BRIDGE

C                       A
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Em                    D
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai
C                           A
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Em                      D
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
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Exit to Bridge - Lead Guitar Part (these are hammer ons)

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VERSE

G                     D
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, Mafia
Em                   C
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
G                  D
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Em                       C
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)

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
      B
No we didn't light it
       C
But we tried to fight it

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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                    C
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
G                     D
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
Em                C
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)

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
      B
No we didn't light it
       C
But we tried to fight it
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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
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CHORUS (intro part is the lead here)

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
      B
But when we are gone
       C                  D
It still burn on, and on, and on, and on
                    Em              C
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on
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
      B
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
      B
No we didn't light it
       C
But we tried to fight it

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