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We Didn’t Start The Fire Lyrics By Billy Joel

    harry truman doris day
    red china johnnie ray
    south pacific
    walter winchell joe dimaggio
    joe mccarthy richard nixon
    studebaker television
    north korea south korea
    marilyn monroe
    rosenbergs hbomb
    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 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 dacron
    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 zhou enlai
    on the river kwai
    lebanon charles de gaulle
    california baseball
    starkweather homicide
    children of thalidomide
    buddy holly benhur
    space monkey mafia
    hula hoops castro
    edsel is a nogo
    u 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

    4
    hemingway eichmann
    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 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

    5
    birth control ho chi minh
    richard nixon back again
    moonshot woodstock
    watergate punk rock
    begin reagan palestine
    terror on the airline
    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 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
    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
    we didn’t start the fire
    it was always burning
    since the world’s been turning

    Artist: Billy Joel

    Year: 1989

    Decade: 80s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 320