Billy Joel songs (We Didn't Start the Fire)
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WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter
Winchell, Joe DiMaggio,
Joe MacCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television, North Korea, South Korea,
Marilyn Monroe.
Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Pan-mun-jom, 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, Chou-En-Lai, Bridge on
the River Kwai.
Lebanon, Charles deGaulle, California baseball. Starkweather Homicide, Children
of Thalidomide.
Oh, 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. Moon shot, Woodstock,
Watergate, Punk Rock.
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline. Ayatollahs 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.
We didn't start the fire. But when we are gone, will it still burn on,
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on.
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.