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We Didn’t Start The Fire

We Didn’t Start The Fire. Written and Sung by: Billy Joel. ‘49. Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Whinchell, Joe DiMaggio. ‘50. Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe. ‘51.

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We Didn’t Start The Fire

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  1. We Didn’t Start The Fire Written and Sung by: Billy Joel

  2. ‘49 • Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray • South Pacific, Walter Whinchell, Joe DiMaggio

  3. ‘50 • Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television • North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

  4. ‘51 • Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom • Brando, The King And I and The Catcher In The Rye

  5. ‘52 • Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new queen • Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

  6. 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

  7. ‘53 • Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev • Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

  8. ‘54 • Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron • Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock around the Clock

  9. ‘55 • Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team • Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

  10. ‘56 • Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev • Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

  11. 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

  12. ‘57 • Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac • Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

  13. ‘58 • Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball • Starkweather, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide

  14. ‘59 • Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia • Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

  15. ‘60 • U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy • Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

  16. 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

  17. ‘61 • Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land • Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion

  18. ‘62 • Lawrence Of Arabia, British Beatlemania • Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

  19. ‘63 • Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician Sex • J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

  20. 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

  21. ‘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

  22. ‘69 – ‘89 • 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

  23. We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning on us We didn’t start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on, and on, and on…

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