GDAmC x4
GD Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
AmC South Pacific, Walter Winch ell, Joe DiMaggio
GD Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
AmC North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
 
GDAmC
GD Rosenberg s, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
AmC Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
GD Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
AmC Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
 
GD We didn't start the fire;
Am It was always burning,
C Since the world's been turning
GD We didn't start the fire
Am No we didn't light it,
C But we tried to fight it
 
GD Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
AmC Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
GD Roy Kahn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
AmC Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
GD Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
AmC Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
GD Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
AmC Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
 
GD We didn't start the fire;
Am It was always burning,
C Since the world's been turning
GD We didn't start the fire
Am No we didn't light it,
C But we tried to fight it
 
AmEm Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
AmD Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
AmEm Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
AmDDsus2 D Stark weather, homicide, children of thalidomide
 
GD Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
AmC Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
GD U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
AmC Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
 
GD We didn't start the fire
Am It was always burning,
C Since the world's been turning
GD We didn't start the fire
Am No we didn't light it,
C But we tried to fight it
 
GD Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
AmC Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
GD "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatle mania
AmC Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
GD Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
AmC JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
 
GD We didn't start the fire
Am It was always burning,
C Since the world's been turning
GD We didn't start the fire
Am No we didn't light it,
C But we tried to fight it
 
GD Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
AmC Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
GD Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
AmC Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
GD "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
AmC Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
GD Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
AmC Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
 
GD We didn't start the fire
Am It was always burning,
C Since the world's been turning
GD We didn't start the fire
Am But when we are gone
CGDAmC Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on x3