We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel song

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

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 . 

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire 
It was always burning, 
Since the world's been turning. 
We didn't start the fire 
Well 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, Tosconini, Dacron, 
Dien Bien 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.

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire 
It was always burning, 
Since the world's been turning. 
We didn't start the fire 
Well 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 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.

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire 
It was always burning, 
Since the world's been turning. 
We didn't start the fire 
Well 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 politician sex, 
JFK blown away, What else do I have to say? 

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire 
It was always burning, 
Since the world's been turning. 
We didn't start the fire 
Well we didn't light it, 
But we tried to fight it.

1964
to
1989

Birth control, Ho Chi-Minh, Richard Nixon back again, 
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate,Punk Rock, 
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airlines
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 shore, 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..... 
CHORUS