We Didnt Start The Fire
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Intro] (main piano riff)
e|---------------------------------------------|
B|-------8-10-12---8-10-12-10-8---8-10-12-10-8-|
G|-7-7-9---------9--------------9--------------|
D|---------------------------------------------| x2
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------|
[Verse 1]
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
[Interlude]
e|---------------------------------------------|
B|-------8-10-12---8-10-12-10-8---8-10-12-10-8-|
G|-7-7-9---------9--------------9--------------|
D|---------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------|
[Verse 2]
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] (Play the Intro)
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
[Verse 3]
G D
Joseph 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 C
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
G D
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Em C
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez
[Chorus]
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
[Verse 4]
C Am
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Em D
Sputnik, Chou En-lai, Bridge on the River Kwai
C Am
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Em D
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide
[Verse 5]
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
[Chorus]
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
[Verse 6]
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?
[Chorus]
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
[Verse 7]
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
[Outro]
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
But when we are gone
C
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
It was always burning
C
Since the world's been turning
G Dsus2
We didn't start the fire
Em
No we didn't light it
C
But we tried to fight it
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