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