Billy Joel We Didn't Start the Fire Lyrics:
1949 Harry Truman
Doris day
Red China
Johnnie Ray

South Pacific
Walter Winchell
Joe Di Maggio.
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
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Pasternak
Mickey Mantle
Kerouac

Sputnik
Chou En-Lai
Bridge On The
River Kwai.
1958 Lebanon
Charles de Gaulle
California baseball

Starkweather
Hoicide
Children of
Thalidomide.

1959 Buddy Holly
Ben Hur
Space Monkey
Mafia

Hula Hoops
Castro
Edsel is a no-go.
1960 U 2
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
...
we didn't
start the fire
...
Lyrics: We Didn't Start the Fire, Billy Joel [end]