Lirik dan Chord Lagu We Dindn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "We Dindn't Start the Fire" adalah lagu Billy Joel yang diluncurkan pada 1989.

Lagu ini menjadi bagian dalam album yang bertajuk Storm Front.

Album tersebut berada di bawah naungan label Columbia Records.

Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "We Dindn't Start the Fire" dari Billy Joel:

G D Am C x4

G                                      D
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
Am                                           C
South Pacific, Walter Winch ell, Joe DiMaggio
G                                            D
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
Am                                    C
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

G D Am C

G                               D
Rosenberg s, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Am                                 C
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
G                               D
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Am                          C
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

G                            D
We didn't start the fire;
           Am
It was always burning,
               C
Since the world's been turning
G                           D
We didn't start the fire
            Am
No we didn't light it,
            C
But we tried to fight it

G                                    D
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Am                                  C
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
G                                 D
Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Am                           C
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
G                                D
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Am                                   C
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
G                          D
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Am                                            C
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

G                            D
We didn't start the fire;
          Am
It was always burning,
               C
Since the world's been turning
G                            D
We didn't start the fire
            Am
No we didn't light it,
            C
But we tried to fight it

Am                               Em
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Am                                 D
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Am                                         Em
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Am                                    D                               Dsus2 D
Stark weather, homicide, children of thalidomide

G                                   D
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Am                           C
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
G                               D
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Am                                     C
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

G                            D
We didn't start the fire
           Am
It was always burning,
                C
Since the world's been turning
G                            D
We didn't start the fire
            Am
No we didn't light it,
            C
But we tried to fight it

G                                   D
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Am                 C
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
G                                 D
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatle mania
Am                             C
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
G                                 D
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
Am                       C
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

G                            D
We didn't start the fire
           Am
It was always burning,
                C
Since the world's been turning
G                            D
We didn't start the fire
           Am
No we didn't light it,
           C
But we tried to fight it

G                                          D
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Am                                C
Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
G                                       D
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Am                          C
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
G                                             D
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Am                                          C
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
G                                          D
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Am                                   C
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

G                            D
We didn't start the fire
          Am
It was always burning,
               C
Since the world's been turning
G                            D
We didn't start the fire
               Am
But when we are gone
          C                          G          D         Am    C
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on x3