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We Didn't Start the Fire
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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny 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 | |
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 | |
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev | |
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc | |
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron | |
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, 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 | |
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac | |
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai | |
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball | |
Starkwether, 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 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, 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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
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There rules are simple; just replace the allusions with the major programming arguments, issues or dramas since 1972 (we’re taking 40 years, just as Billy Joel did in the original).