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, Rosenberg's 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
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,
Krushchev, 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, Starkweather,
Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", s***e monkey,
Mafia, Hula hoops, Castro,
Edsel is a no-go, U-2, 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, 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 s**
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
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
But when we are gone
It would still burn on and on.
edit by MySno (NZ)
Johnnie Ray, South Pacific,
Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker,
Television, North Korea, South Korea,
Marilyn Monroe, Rosenberg's 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
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,
Krushchev, 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, Starkweather,
Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", s***e monkey,
Mafia, Hula hoops, Castro,
Edsel is a no-go, U-2, 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, 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 s**
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
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
But when we are gone
It would still burn on and on.
edit by MySno (NZ)