We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel

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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray,

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe Dimaggio,
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television,

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe.
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmumjom,

Brando, The King and I, and the Catcher In the Rye,
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen,

Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye. -
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, 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.
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, but we tried to fight it.

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac,

Sputnik, Chou En Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai,
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball,

Starkweather, homocide, Children of Thalidomide.
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkeys, Mafia,

Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go.
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy,

Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgian's in the Congo.
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, but we tried to fight it.
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, Malcom X, British politician sex,

J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say
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, but we tried to fight it.
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again.

Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock,
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline.

Ayatollahs in Iran, Russians in Afganistan.
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 'n Roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore.
We didn't start the fire, It was always burning since the world's been turning,

We didn't start the fire, but when we are gone will it still bum on.

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.