Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire'

Entertainment: Music References

*** "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...