We Didn't Start 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
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 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, Krushchev
 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, 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, 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
 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 shore, 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, and 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