Chords for The Story of "Light My Fire" by The Doors

[G#m] Jim was the writer, he's the guy who had the songs.
And, you know, I didn't really think about writing. _
But _ then Jim said, hey, you know what?
We don't have enough songs.
Why don't you all guys go and try and write some [A] too, you know?
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ [A] Know that it would be [F#m] untrue. _
_ [A] Know that I would [F#m] be a liar. _
_ [A] If I was to say [F#m] to you, _
_ [A] girl, we couldn't get [F#m] much higher. _
_ [G] Come on, [A] baby, light [D] my fire. _
_ [G] Come on, [A] baby, [D] light my [F#m] fire. _
[G] Let's try to [D] set the night [E] on fire.
_ _ _ _ _ Basically, what Robbie had was kind of more [A#] of a folk song
than it turned [E] into.
It goes into the [G#m] Doors' communal mind,
and Densmore [G] says, let's put a Latin beat to it, man.
Like this. _ _ _
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And how do we start the song?
We can't [Am] just, _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ because that's [Am] like,
that's the riff of the [F#m] song.
_ [B] And I don't know, out of the, you know,
the better [G] angels of my unconscious mind came.
[D] _ _ [F] _
_ _ [A#] _ [D#] _ _ _ [G#] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [B] _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] Know that it would be [F#m] untrue.
_ _ [Am] Know that I would [F#m] be a liar.
_ _ [A] [Am] If I was to say [A] to you, _ _ girl, we couldn't get much higher.
_ _ [G] Come on, [A] baby, light my [D] fire.
_ _ [G] Come on, [A] baby, light my [D] [B] fire.
_ [G] Let's try to [D] set the night [E] on fire.
Jim came up with the second verse about [N] the funeral pyre.
_ And _ I said, Jim, why is it always death?
Why do you always have to do that?
And he said, no, man, this is perfect.
You know, you got _ the _ love part of it,
and then we'll have the death part.
And [E] he was right.
[Am] The time to hesitate [F#m] is through.
_ [Am] The time to wallow in the [F#m] mire.
_ _ [A] Try now, [Em] we can only [F#m] _ lose.
And [Am] our love become a [F#m] funeral pyre.
_ [G] Come on, baby, [A] light [D] my fire.
_ That [G] song [A] really had it.
[B] The thing going against it, it was over six [G] minutes long.
Dave Diamond, [E] local DJ, said, man,
I am getting requests for Light My Fire.
I play it, because I got the diamond mind.
Late at night, I can play a long version.
But you guys [N] got to cut that thing down and make a single.
I'm telling you, it's a hit.
The boys didn't want to cut it.
_ _ I said, well, look, let's just let Paul
see what he can come up with.
And guys, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work,
and we won't do it.
And we said, no, we can't do that.
You know, that's our favorite song.
We can't cut it down.
_ But finally, we did.
And that was, _ then all hell broke loose after that.
[Am]
Dave Diamond, [D] we love you.
[Am] We [Bm] miss you.
_ [Am] _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[C] _ I remember being [N] in New York in a limousine,
going to a [G] concert.
[F] Light My Fire was just breaking.
And it must be played every three minutes, four minutes,
of one song, then another song, and then Light My Fire again.
[F#] We were just in the limo, and our smiles were so big.
We were so happy.
It [E] just dripped out of [F#m] the radio.
The Beatles were saying, all you need is love.
Morris is going, Light My Fire, honey.
There's a big difference.
It's love, but it's a different kind of [N] love. _
Then they go on Ed Sullivan.
_ _ [G] You _
_ [F] _ _ [A#] _ _ [D#] _ _ _
[G#] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] know that it would be [A] true. _
You [Am] know that I would [A] be alive.
The Ed Sullivan show was where the Beatles first appeared.
Ed Sullivan was watched by families on Sunday night.
Suddenly, little Sally _ is up on all fours,
leaning in, looking at the Lizard King.
_ _ And Daddy's looking at Dad going, oh, no.
We can't have this.
We cannot have this.
And the moment Daddy said, we cannot have this,
she was out buying every Doors album you could possibly imagine.
No [C] time to wallow [F#] in the mire.
[A] _
_ [C] China, we can [A] only lose.
And [Em] our love become a [F#m] funeral pyre.
Of course, we didn't do what they told us.
They didn't want us to say, girl,
you couldn't get much higher. _ _
_ [Am] If I want to say [A] to you, _ [C] girl, we couldn't get [F#m] much higher.
Jim did it anyway.
And then they said, you'll never do this show again.
And we said, well, we just did it.
We only wanted to do it once.
_ [F] Cheers.
God has set [C] the [D] night on fire.
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ [A#] _ _ [D#] _ _
[G#] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ Light My Fire hit number one in late July of 1967.
I think it's more in retrospect that it is seen now
as a perfect song for that summer, for that time,
because things were beginning [G] to [D] _ _
glow and ignite and explode
in terms of the social changes, the political changes
in the country.
_ [N] _