David Hasselhoff - We Didnt Start The Fire Chords

[Intro]
 
E B C#m A
E B G#m A
 
 
[Verse]
 
E                        B
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
C#m                             A
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
E                            B
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
C#m                       A
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
 
 
[Interlude]
 
E B C#m A
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
E                   B
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
C#m                     A
Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye
E                    B
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
C#m                 A
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
 
 
[Chorus]
 
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
       C#m
It was always burning
          A
Since the world's been turning
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
             G#m
No we didn't light it
                A
But we tried to fight it
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
E                        B
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
C#m                      A
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
E                     B
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
C#m                  A
Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock
E                     B
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
C#m                       A
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
E                 B
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
C#m                           A
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez
 
 
[Chorus 2]
 
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
       C#m
It was always burning
          A
Since the world's been turning
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
             G#m
No we didn't light it
                A
But we tried to fight it
 
 
[Bridge]
 
A                       F#m
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
C#m                   B
Sputnik, Chou En-lai, Bridge on the River Kwai
A                           F#m
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
C#m                    B
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
E                     B
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, Mafia
C#m                 A
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
E                  B
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
C#m                     A
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
 
 
[Chorus 3]
 
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
       C#m
It was always burning
          A
Since the world's been turning
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
             G#m
No we didn't light it
                A
But we tried to fight it
 
 
[Verse 5]
 
E                    B
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
C#m            A
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
E                   B
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
C#m                   A
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
E                     B
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
C#m             A
JFK blown away, what else do I have to say?
 
 
[Chorus 4]
 
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
       C#m
It was always burning
          A
Since the world's been turning
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
             G#m
No we didn't light it
                A
But we tried to fight it
 
 
[Verse 6]
 
E                           B
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
C#m                  A
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
E                         B
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
C#m                  A
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
E                             B
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
C#m                           A
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
E                          B
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
C#m                        A
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
 
 
[Chorus 5]
 
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
        C#m
It was always burning
          A
Since the world's been turning
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
         G#m
But when we are gone
        A                  E               B               C#m             A
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
       C#m
It was always burning
          A
Since the world's been turning
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
             G#m
No we didn't light it
                A
But we tried to fight it
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
       C#m
It was always burning
          A
Since the world's been turning
E                   B
We didn't start the fire
             G#m
No we didn't light it
                A
But we tried to fight it
E
We didn't start the fire