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

G D  
e C  
G D  
e C

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

G D  
e C  
G D  
e C

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

G D  
e C  
G D  
e C

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev  
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc  
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron  
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

G D  
e C  
G D  
e C

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team  
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland  
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev  
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

G D  
e C  
G D  
e C

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

G D  
e C  
G D  
e C

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac  
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"  
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball  
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

C A  
e D  
C A  
e D

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

G D  
e C  
G D  
e C