We Didn't Start the Fire 
Billy Joel (1989)

  
Harry Truman,Doris Day, Red China,JohnnieRay
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..

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