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  • We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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, 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

  • 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 JFK, 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 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

  • 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

  • it was always burning Since the world's been turning

  • We didn't start the fire

  • it was always burning Since the world's been turning

  • We didn't start the fire

  • it was always burning Since the world's been turning

  • We didn't start the fire........

We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel

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