We Didnt Start The Fire keyboard

We Didnt Start The Fire

• Intro

Intro
G  D  Em  C

Verse 1
G                            D
Captain Planet, Arab Spring, L.A. riots, Rodney King
Em                       C
Deep fakes, earthquakes, Iceland volcano
G                   D
Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon
Em                      C
Tiger Woods, MySpace Monsanto, GMOs
G  D  Em  C

G                       D
Harry Potter, Twilight, Michael Jackson dies
Em                  C
Nuclear accident, Fukushima, Japan
G                  D
Crimean peninsula, Cambridge Analytica
Em                  C
Kim Jong Un, Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man


Chorus
G                    D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
G                   D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                        C
No, we didn't light it but we're trying to fight it


Verse 2
G                        D
More war in Afghanistan, Cubs go all the way again
Em                  C
Obama, Spielberg, Explosion, Lebanon
G                         D
Unabomber, Bobbitt, John, Bombing, Boston Marathon
Em                  C
Balloon Boy, War On Terror, QAnon
G                           D
Trump gets impeached twice, Polar bears got no ice
Em                       C
Fyre Fest, Black Parade, Michael Phelps, Y2K
G                      D
Boris Johnson, Brexit, Kanye West and Taylor Swift
Em                           C
Stranger Things, Tiger King, Ever Given, Suez


Chorus
G                    D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
G                   D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                        C
No, we didn't light it but we're trying to fight it


Verse 3
C
Sandy Hook, Columbine
Am
Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice
Em                  D
ISIS, LeBron James, Shinzo Abe blown away
C                            Am
Meghan Markle, George Floyd, Burj Khalifa, Metroid
Em             D
Fermi paradox, Venus and Serena
D

G                    D
Michael Jordan, 23, YouTube killed MTV
Em                      C
SpongeBob, Golden State Killer got caught
G                   D
Michael Jordan, 45, Woodstock '99
Em
Keaton Batman, Bush v. Gore
C
I can't take it anymore


Chorus
G                    D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
G                   D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                        C
No, we didn't light it but we're trying to fight it


Verse 4
G                      D
Elon Musk, Kaepernick, Texas failed electric grid
Em                          C
Jeff Bezos, climate change, White rhino goes extinct
G                            D
Great Pacific garbage patch, Tom DeLonge and aliens
Em                  C
Mars rover, Avatar, Self-driving electric cars
G      D
SSRIs, Prince and The Queen die
Em
World Trade, second plane
C
What else do I have to say?


Chorus
G                   D
We didn't start the fire (we didn't start it, yeah)
       Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
G                   D
We didn't start the fire (we didn't start it, yeah)
         Em                   C                G
But when we are gone, it will still go on, and on, and on
    D               Em              C
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on
G                    D
We didn't start the fire
       Em                       C                      D
It was always burning since the world's been turning

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