We Didn't Start The Fire--Billy Joel (STORM FRONT -- 1989)

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 Panmunjon
Brando "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower vaccine England's got a new queen
Marciano Liberace Santayana goodbye

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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
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

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 Kruschev
Princess Grace "Peyton Place" trouble in the Suez

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Little Rock Pasternak Mickey Mantle Kerouac
Sputnik Chou En-Lai "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon Charles de Gaulle California baseball
Starkweather homicide children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly "Ben Hur" space monkey Maria
Hula hoops Castro Edsel is a no-go

U2 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 Malcom X British politician sex
JFK blown away what else do I have to say

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Birth control Ho Chi Minh Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot Woodstock Watergate punk rock

Begin Regan 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 'n' 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....