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,
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
(chorus)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, Nassar and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Tuscanini, 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
Bardeau, Budapest, Alabama, Kruschev
Princess Grace, taking place, Trouble in the Suez
Chorus
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En Lai, 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
(something something something) Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
Chorus
Hemingway, Aikman, 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, Malcom X, British Politician Sex
JFK, Blown away, what else do I have to say?
Chorus
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punk Rock
Bacon (?), 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 shore, China's under Martial Law
Rock and Roll, Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the Fire
It was alway 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 x4 1/2, fading out
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