Billy Joel We Didn`t Start The Fire Lyrics

We Didn`t Start The Fire Lyrics

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

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 aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist
Bloc

Roy hn, 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,
Charlse 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, Woodsto/ck/,
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...