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Billy Joel
We Didn't Start the Fire
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1949
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Harry Truman,
Doris Day,
Red China,
Johnnie Ray,
South Pacific,
Walter Winchell,
Joe Dimaggio,
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1950
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Joe McCarthy,
Richard Nixon,
Studebaker,
Television,
North Korea,
South Korea,
Marilyn Monroe,
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1951
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Rosenbergs,
H-Bomb,
Sugar Ray,
Panmunjom,
Brando,
The King and I and
The Catcher in the Rye
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1952
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Eisenhower,
Vaccine,
England's got a new Queen,
Marciano,
Liberace,
Santayana good-bye .
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CHORUS
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We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
Well we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.
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1953
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Joseph Stalin,
Malenkov,
Nasser and
Prokofiev
Rockefeller,
Campanella,
Communist bloc,
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1954
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Roy Cohn,
Juan Peron,
Toscanini,
Dacron,
Dien Bien Phu falls,
Rock Around the Clock,
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1955
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Einstein,
James Dean,
Brooklyn's got a winning team,
Davy Crockett,
Peter Pan,
Elvis Presley,
Disneyland,
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1956
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Bardot,
Budapest,
Alabama,
Khrushchev,
Princess Grace,
Peyton Place,
Trouble in the Suez.
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CHORUS
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We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
Well we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.
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1957
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Little Rock,
Pasternak,
Mickey Mantle,
Kerouac,
Sputnik,
Chou En-Lai,
Bridge on the River Kwai,
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1958
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Lebanon,
Charles de Gaulle,
California Baseball,
Starkweather homicide,
Children of Thalidomide,
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1959
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Buddy Holly,
Ben Hur,
Space Monkey,
Mafia,
Hula Hoops,
Castro,
Edsel is a no go,
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1960
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U-2,
Syngman Rhee,
Payola and
Kennedy,
Chubby Checker,
Psycho,
Belgians in the Congo.
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CHORUS
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We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
Well we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.
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1961
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Hemingway,
Eichmann,
Stranger in a Strange Land,
Dylan,
Berlin,
Bay of Pigs Invasion,
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1962
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Lawrence of Arabia,
British Beatlemania,
Ole Miss,
John Glenn,
Liston beats Patterson,
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1963
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Pope Paul,
Malcolm X,
British politician sex,
JFK blown away,
What else do I have to say?
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CHORUS
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We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
Well we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.
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1964
to
1989
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Birth control,
Ho Chi-Minh,
Richard Nixon back again,
Moonshot,
Woodstock,
Watergate,
Punk Rock,
Begin,
Reagan,
Palestine,
Terror on the airlines
Ayatollahs in Iran,
Russians in Afghanistan,
Wheel of Fortune,
Sally Ride,
Heavy metal,
Suicide,
Foreign debts,
Homeless Vets,
AIDS,
Crack,
Bernie Goetz,
Hypodermics on the shore,
China's Under Martial Law,
Rock and Roller Cola Wars,
I can't take it any more!
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CHORUS
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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
It will still burn on and on and on and on.....
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