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  • We Didnt Start The Fire by Billy Joel

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    The song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel lists over 100 historical events and cultural touchstones from 1949 to 1989, with each line referencing a different topic. The chorus repeats that "we didn't start the fire" and that it has been "burning since the world's been turning." The rapid fire listing of topics is meant to illustrate the many significant changes that occurred during the time period.

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    The song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel lists over 100 historical events and cultural touchstones from 1949 to 1989, with each line referencing a different topic. The chorus repeats that "we didn't start the fire" and that it has been "burning since the world's been turning." The rapid fire listing of topics is meant to illustrate the many significant changes that occurred during the time period.

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    We Didnt Start The Fire by Billy Joel

    Transféré par

    GavinGilchrist
    The song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel lists over 100 historical events and cultural touchstones from 1949 to 1989, with each line referencing a different topic. The chorus repeats that "we didn't start the fire" and that it has been "burning since the world's been turning." The rapid fire listing of topics is meant to illustrate the many significant changes that occurred during the time period.

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    WE DIDNT START THE FIRE BY BILLY JOEL 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 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 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 [. From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/b/billy-joel-lyrics/we-didn_t-start-the-firelyrics.html .] U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and 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 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 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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