We Didn T Start the Fire by Billy Joel, 1989

“We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel, 1989 Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray We didn't start the fire South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio No we didn't light it Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television But we tried to fight it North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land" Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania Rye" Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say We didn't start the fire We didn't start the fire It was always burning It was always burning Since the world's been turning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it But we tried to fight it Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock" Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez law We didn't start the fire Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore It was always burning We didn't start the fire Since the world's been turning It was always burning We didn't start the fire Since the world's been turning No we didn't light it We didn't start the fire But we tried to fight it But when we are gone Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai" We didn't start the fire Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball It was always burning Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia No we didn't light it Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go But we tried to fight it U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy We didn't start the fire Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it It was always burning But we tried to fight it Since the world's been turning