JOEL BILLY - We Didn't Start The Fire lyrics

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'49 harry truman, doris day, red china, johnnie ray<br>South pacific, walter winchell, joe dimaggio<br><br>'50 joe mccarthy, richard nixon, studebaker, television<br>North korea, south korea, marilyn monroe<br><br>'51 rosenbergs, h-bomb, sugar ray, panmunjom<br>Brando, the king and I and the catcher in the rye<br><br>'52 eisenhower, vaccine, england's got a new queen<br>Marciano, liberace, santayana goodbye<br><br>Chorus<br>We didn't start the fire<br>It was always burning<br>Since the world's been turning<br>We didn't start the fire<br>No we didn't light it<br>But we tried to fight it<br><br>'53 joseph stalin, malenkov, nasser and prokofiev<br>Rockefeller, campanella, communist bloc<br><br>'54 roy cohn, juan peron, toscanini, dacron<br>Dien bien phu falls, rock around the clock<br><br>'55 einstein, james dean, brooklyn's got a winning team<br>Davy crockett, peter pan, elvis presley, disneyland<br><br>'56 bardot, budapest, alabama, krushchev<br>Princess grace, peyton place, trouble in the suez<br><br>Chorus<br><br>'57 little rock, pasternak, mickey mantle, kerouac<br>Sputnik, chou en-lai, bridge on the river kwai<br><br>'58 lebanon, charles de gaulle, california baseball<br>Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide<br><br>'59 buddy holly, ben hur, space monkey, mafia<br>Hula hoops, castro, edsel is a no-go<br><br>'60 u-2, syngman rhee, payola and kennedy<br>Chubby checker, psycho, belgians in the congo<br><br>Chorus<br><br>'61 hemingway, eichmann, stranger in a strange land<br>Dylan, berlin, bay of pigs invasion<br><br>'62 lawrence of arabia, british beatlemania<br>Ole miss, john glenn, liston beats patterson<br><br>'63 pope paul, malcolm x, british politician sex<br>Jfk, blown away, what else do I have to say<br><br>Chorus<br><br>'64 - '89 birth control, ho chi minh, richard nixon back again<br>Moonshot, woodstock, watergate, punk rock<br>Begin, reagan, palestine, terror on the airline<br>Ayatollah's in iran, russians in afghanistan<br><br>Wheel of fortune, sally ride, heavy metal, suicide<br>Foreign debts, homeless vets, aids, crack, bernie goetz<br>Hypodermics on the shores, china's under martial law<br>Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore<br><br>Chorus<br><br>We didn't start the fire<br>But when we are gone<br>Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...