Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire lyrics

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, Khrushchev
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, Zhou 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 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 ayatollahs 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
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on and on, and on

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
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
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
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning