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Artist: Billy
Joel
Title: We
Didn’t Start The Fire
Album:
Storm Front
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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 good-bye
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
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
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
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
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
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
Birth control, Ho Chi-Minh, Richard
Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punk
rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the
airlines
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 shore, China's under
martial law
Rock and 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
It will still burn on, and on, and on,
and 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
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
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...