We Didn't Start The Fire lyrics by Billy Joel
Title : WE DIDN'T START THE FIREArtist : BILLY JOEL
Comp : Billy Joel
Copyright : EMI Songs Int Ltd
Reference Number : 0242
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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe Di-Maggio
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, good bye
We didn't start the fire, it was
Always burnin' since the worlds bin' turnin'
We didn't start the fire, no we
Didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Masser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, communist block
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien, Phu falls, rock around the clock
Einstein, James dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crocket, peter pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess grace, Payton place, trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire, it was
Always burnin' since the worlds bin' turnin'
We didn't start the fire, no we
Didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Little rock, Pasternack, Mickey mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chouen lai, bridge on the river Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California, baseball
Stark weather, 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 fire, it was
Always burnin' since the worlds bin' turnin'
We didn't start the fire, no we
Didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Hemmingway, Eichman, 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
We didn't start the fire, it was
Always burnin' since the worlds bin' turnin'
We didn't start the fire, no we
Didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Birth control, ho chi min, Richard Nixon back again
Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the air line
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 roll and cola wars, i can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire, it was
Always burnin' since the worlds bin' turnin'
We didn't start the fire, but when
We are gone will it still burn on,
And on, and on, and on
And on, and on, and on, and on
We didn't start the fire, it was
Always burnin' since the worlds bin' turnin'
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 burnin' since the worlds bin' turnin'
We didn't start the fire, no we
Didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire !
Transcribed and Programmed by : Dave Clackett
Copyright (C)1999
