We Didn't Start the Fire
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray,South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television,North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenberg, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, PanmunjomBrando, 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 fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light itBut 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 fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac,Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, 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 fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatle mania,Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex,J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say
We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light itBut 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 shores, China's under martial law,Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fireIt was always burning since the world's been turning.We didn't start the fireBut when we are goneIt will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fire...