US History - "We Didn't Start the Fire"

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We Didn't Stop the Fire

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


Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

Rockefeller, Campanella,Communist Bloc


Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron

Dien Bien Phu and Rock Around the Clock


Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan , Elvis Presley, Disneyland


Bardot, Budapest, Alabama,Khrushchev

Princess Grace, Peyton Place , trouble in the Suez


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


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, Mafia

hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go


U2, Syngman Rhee, payolaand Kennedy

Chubby Checker, Psycho ,Belgians in the Congo


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


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

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

Ayatollolah's in Iran, /russia_invasion_afghanistan.htm 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 anymore


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


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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