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

INTRO RIFF
G  G  Em7  C

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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

CHORUS I
G/D                               Em7                         C 
We didn't start the fire.  It was always burning.  Since the world's been turning.
G/D                                G/B                     C
We didn't start the fire.  No we didn't light it  But we tried to fight it


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Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev?
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc?

Roy Cohn, 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, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez?

CHORUS II
G/D                               Em7                         C 
We didn't start the fire.  It was always burning.  Since the world's been turning.
G/D                                G/B                     Am
We didn't start the fire.  No we didn't light it  But we tried to fight it


BRIDGE
C                       Am
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
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Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai?
C                           Am
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball,?
Em                     D   
Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide

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Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go?

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo?

CHORUS I
G/D                               Em                         C 
We didn't start the fire.  It was always burning.  Since the world's been turning.
G/D                                G/B                     C
We didn't start the fire.  No we didn't light it  But we tried to fight it

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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
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?

CHORUS I
G/D                               Em                         C 
We didn't start the fire.  It was always burning.  Since the world's been turning.
G/D                                G/B                     C
We didn't start the fire.  No we didn't light it  But we tried to fight it

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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
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore?


CHORUS III
G/D                               Em                         C 
We didn't start the fire.  It was always burning.  Since the world's been turning.
G/D                                G/B                             C
We didn't start the fire.  But when we are gone It will still burn on, and on, and on,

REPEAT AND FADE?
CHORUS I
G/D                               Em                         C 
We didn't start the fire.  It was always burning.  Since the world's been turning.
G/D                                G/B                     C
We didn't start the fire.  No we didn't light it  But we tried to fight it