We Didn't Start The Fire

('49) Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio ('50) Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe ('51) Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye ('52) Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen Maciano, 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 ('53) Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Block ('54) Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around The Clock ('55) Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland ('56) 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 ('57) Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai ('58) Lebanon, Charles De Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide ('59) Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go ('60) U2 , Syngman Rhee, payoka and Kennedy Chubby Checher, 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 ('61) Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion ('62) Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson ('63) 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 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 ('64-'89) Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punkrock 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 any more 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... 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...