We Didn’t Start the Fire

We Didn’t Start the Fire: Chords

Intro:
SOL/RE   MIm7 DO

SOL                      RE
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
MIm                             DO
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
SOL                          RE
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
MIm                       DO             SOL/RE   MIm7 DO
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
SOL                 RE
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
MIm                     DO
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
SOL                  RE
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
MIm                 DO
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
       MIm7
It was always burning
          DO
Since the world's been turning
SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
       SOL/SI
No, we didn't light it
       DO 
But we tried to fight it

SOL                      RE
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
MIm                      DO
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
SOL                   RE
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
MIm                  DO
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
SOL                   RE
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
MIm                       DO
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
SOL               RE
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
MIm                           DO
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
       MIm7
It was always burning
          DO
Since the world's been turning
SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
       SOL/SI
No, we didn't light it
       LAm7
But we tried to fight it

DO                      LAm
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
MIm                   RE
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
DO                          LAm
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
MIm                    RE
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide...

SOL                   RE
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
MIm                 DO
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
SOL                RE
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
MIm                     DO
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
       MIm7
It was always burning
          DO
Since the world's been turning
SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
       SOL/SI
No, we didn't light it
       DO 
But we tried to fight it

SOL                  RE
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
MIm            DO
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
SOL                 RE
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
MIm                   DO
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
SOL                   RE
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician Sex
MIm                DO
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?

SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
       MIm7
It was always burning
          DO
Since the world's been turning
SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
       SOL/SI
No, we didn't light it
       DO 
But we tried to fight it

SOL                         RE
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
MIm                  DO
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
SOL                       RE
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
MIm                  DO
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
SOL                           RE
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
MIm                           DO
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
SOL                        RE
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
MIm                        
Rock and Roller Cola wars, I can't take it anymore

SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
       MIm7
It was always burning
          DO
Since the world's been turning
SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
        SOL/SI
No, you were gone
        DO                RE4           RE
It will still burn on and on and on and on
           MIm7          DO    
And on and on and on and on...

SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
       SOL/SI
It was always burning
          DO
Since the world's been turning
SOL
We didn't start the fire
       MIm7
No, we didn't light it
       DO
But we tried to fight it
SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
       SOL/SI
It was always burning
          DO
Since the world's been turning
SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire
       MIm7
No, we didn't light it
       DO
But we tried to fight it
SOL/RE
We didn't start the fire...

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We Didn't Start the Fire è un brano scritto e interpretato da Billy Joel, contenuto nell'album Storm Front pubblicato nel 1989. Undicesimo lavoro in studio per il cantautore statunitense, segna un periodo ottimo per la sua carriera musicale, pieno di successi a livello internazionale dando anche un cambio netto alla band. La canzone è il pezzo traino del disco, brano che si è guadagnato una nomination come "miglior canzone dell'anno".

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L'autore del post

Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).