Jun302023

Fall Out Boy – We Didn’t Start the Fire Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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[INTRO]
   G

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

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

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

 [VERSE TWO]
  G
 More war in Afghanistan
  D
 Cubs go all the way again
  Em
 Obama, Spielberg
  C
 Explosion Lebanon
 G
 Unabomber, Bobbitt, John
  D
 Bombing Boston marathon
  Em                    C
 Balloon Boy, War on Terror
   C
 QAnon

 G
 Trump gets impeached twice
  D
 Polar bears got no ice
 Em
 Fyre Fest, Black Parade
  C
 Michael Phelps, Y2K
 G
 Boris Johnson, Brexit
  D
 Kanye West and Taylor Swift
 Em
 Stranger Things, Tiger King
 C
 Ever Given Suez

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

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

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

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

 [VERSE FOUR]
   G
 Elon Musk, Kaepernick
  D
 Texas failed electric grid
  Em
 Jeff Bezos, climate change
 C
 White rhino goes extinct

Feel free to use our free Chord Shape Generator to see every chord in this song on guitar, ukulele and piano.

G
 Great Pacific garbage patch
 D
 Tom DeLonge and aliens
  Em
 Mars rover, Avatar
  C
 Self driving electric cars
 G
 S S R Is
 D
 Prince and the Queen die
  Em
 World Trade, second plane
  C
 What else do I have to say?

 [CHORUS]
  D
 We didn't start the fire
         Em
 It was always burning
             C
 since the world's
 been turning
 D
 We didn't start the fire
          Em
 But when we are gone
          C
 It will still go on,
     D
  and on, and on
  D
 And on, and on, and on,
Em             C
  and on, and on
  D
 We didn't start the fire
           Em
 It was always burning
             C
 since the world's been turning

How to play We Didn’t Start the Fire: key, chords and progression

These are We Didn’t Start the Fire chords by Fall Out Boy on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

We Didn’t Start the Fire by Fall Out Boy sits in G major (one sharp: F♯), and you need 6 chords to play it: G, D, Em, C, Bm and Am.

Listen for G – D – Em – C (I – V – vi – IV in G major), the “four-chord” progression behind countless pop, rock and worship songs: the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is doh – soh – lah – fah. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Beginner-friendly: almost every chord here is an open shape on guitar: no capo, no barre chords needed.