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Billy Joel We Didn't Start the Fire Lyrics:
(1949) Harry Truman,
Doris Day,
Red China,
Johnnie Ray.
South Pacific,
Walter Winchell,
Joe DiMaggio.

(1950) Joe McCarthy,
Richard Nixon,
Studebaker,
Television.
North Korea,
South Korea,
Marilyn Monroe.

(1951) Rosenbergs,
H-Bomb,
Sugar Ray,
Panmunjom.
Brando,
"The King And I" and "The
Catcher In The Rye".

(1952) 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.

(1953) Joseph Stalin,
Malenkov,
Nasser and Prokofiev.
Rockefeller,
Campanella,
Communist Bloc.

(1954) Roy Cohn,
Juan Peron,
Toscanini,
Dacron.
Dien Bien Phu falls,
"Rock Around the Clock".

(1955) Einstein,
James Dean,
Brooklyn's got a winning team.
David Crockett,
"Peter Pan",
Elvis Presley,
Disneyland.

(1956) Bardot,
Budapest,
Alabama,
Khrushchev.
Princess Grace,
"Peyton Place",
Trouble in the Suez.

We didn't
start the fire
...

(1957) Little Rock,
Pasternak,
Mickey Mantle,
Kerouac.
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Sputnik,
Chou En-Lai,
"Bridge On The River Kwai".

(1958) Lebanon,
Charles de Gaulle,
California baseball.
Starkweather,
Homicide,
Children of Thalidomide.

(1959) Buddy Holly,
"Ben-Hur",
Space Monkey,
Mafia.
Hula Hoops,
Castro,
Edsel is a no-go.

(1960) U2,
Syngman Rhee,
payola and Kennedy.
Chubby Checker,
"Psycho",
Belgians in the Congo.

We didn't
start the fire
...

(1961) Hemingway,
Eichmann,
"Stranger In A Strange Land".
Dylan,
Berlin,
Bay Of Pigs Invasion.

(1962) "Lawrence Of Arabia",
British Beatlemania.
Ole Miss,
John Glenn,
Liston beats Patterson.

(1963) 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
...

(64-89) 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.

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 burn on,
and on, and on, and on...

We didn't start the fire
...

We didn't start the fire
...
Lyrics: We Didn't Start the Fire, Billy Joel [end]