Billy Joel
We Didn't Start The Fire
Storm Front (1989)

(foule)  mélodie  x 2  puis  G  D  Em  C  x 2  w/ mélodie

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

  We didn't start the fire
  It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin'
  We didn't start the fire
  No we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokoffiev
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 winnin' team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez

  Refrain

    Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac         (C  Am  Em  D)
    Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai
    Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
    Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide        e d c  d c

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              w/ angoisse

  Refrain

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
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say                (stop)

  Refrain

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moon shot, 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         (stop)

  Refrain  fin: on and on and on...

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