We Didn't Start the Fire
by Bill Joel
from Storm Front


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

CHORUS
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 Con, 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

CHORUS

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

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, Malcolm X
British politician sex
JFK, blown away
What else do I have to say

CHORUS

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

CHORUS

We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, 
And on, 
And on, 
And on...