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We didn't start the fire, Billy Joel
 
		
			
				
					
						
							We Didn't Start the Fire
Billy Joel
								
									 
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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 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 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, Khrushchev
					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, Zhou Enlai, 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
					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 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 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