We Didn't Start The Fire -- 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, 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 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

Josef 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 

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Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac  Sputnik, Zhou Enlai,
Bridge On The River Kwai   Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball, 
Starkweather 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 

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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
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say 

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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 

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The song have been interpreted as a  rebuttal  to criticism of Joel's Baby Boomer generation. 
The song's title and refrain mention "the fire", an allusion to conflict and societal turmoil;
Joel asserts that these can't be blamed on his generation alone - "we didn't start the fire, 
it was always burning since the world's been turning".                         (From   Wikipedia)  

                    

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