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We Didn t Start The Fire lyrics

1949
Harry Truman
Doris day
Red China
Johnny Ray
South Pacific
Walter Winchell
Joe Di Maggio.

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

1951
Rosenbergs
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 good-bye.

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 Cohen
Juan Peron
Toscanini
Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls
Rock Around The Clock

1955
Einstein
James Dean
Brooklyn s got a winning team
David 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...

1957
Little Rock
Pasternak
Mickey Mantle
Kerouac
Sputnik
Chou En-Lai
Bridge On The River Kwai

1958
Lebanon
Charles de Gaulle
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...

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 Politician Sex
J.F.K. blown away
What else do I have to say?

We didn t start the fire...

64-89
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 fire...
we didn t start the fire...
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