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 and 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,
Woodstock, 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
No we
didn't light it
But we tried
to fight it
We didn't start
the fire
But when we are gone
Will
it still burn on, and on, and on, and on
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