"We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel

We Didn't Start the Fire

Billy Joel (1989)

1949 Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

1950 Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

1951 Rosen bergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye

1952 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

1953 Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

1954 Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bein Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock

1955 Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

1956 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

1957 Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai

1958 Lebanon, Charles de Gualle, California baseball
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide

1959 Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

1960 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

1961 Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger In a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion

1962 Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

1963 Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politicial Sex
J. F. K. 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

1964-
1989 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 on us
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on. . .

"We Didn't Start the Fire" Quiz

1949	Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
1950	Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
1951	Rosen bergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye
1952	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
1953	Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
1954	Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron Dien Bein Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock
1955	Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
1956	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
1957	Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai
1958	Lebanon, Charles de Gualle, California baseball Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
1959	Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
1960	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
1961	Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger In a Strange Land Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion
1962	Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
1963	Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politicial Sex J. F. K. 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
1964- 1989	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 on us We didn't start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on. . .