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'''We Didn't Start the Fire''' is a [[song]] by [[Billy Joel]] that lists major events in his lifetime.

==Lyrics==

[[Harry Truman]], [[Doris Day]], [[Red China]], [[Johnnie Ray]]<br/>
[[South Pacific]], [[Walter Winchell]], [[Joe DiMaggio]]

[[Joe McCarthy]], [[Richard Nixon]], [[Studebaker]], [[television]]<br/>
(contracted; show full)
[[Little Rock]], [[Pasternak]], [[Mickey Mantle]], [[Kerouac]]<br/>
[[Sputnik]], [[Chou En-Lai]], ''[[Bridge on the River Kwai]]''

[[Lebanon]], [[Charles de Gaulle]], [[California]] [[baseball]]<br/>
[[Starkweather]], [[homicide]], [[thalidomide|children of thalidomide]]



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[[Buddy Holly]], ''[[Ben Hur]]'', [[space]] [[monkey]], [[Mafia]]<br/>
[[hula hoops]], [[Castro]], [[Edsel]] is a no go

[[U2]], [[Syngman Rhee]], [[payola]] and [[Kennedy]]<br/>
[[Chubby Checker]], ''[[Psycho]]'', [[Belgium|Belgians]] in the [[Congo]]

We didn't start the fire<br/>
It was always burning<br/>
Since the world's been turning<br/>
We didn't start the fire<br/>
No we didn't light it<br/>
But we tried to fight it

[[Hemingway]], [[Eichmann]], ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]''<br/>
[[Dylan]], [[Berlin]], [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]]

''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'', [[British Beatlemania]]<br/>
[[Ole Miss]], [[John Glenn]], [[Liston]] beats [[Patterson]]

[[Pope Paul]], [[Malcolm X]], [[British politician sex]]<br/>
[[JFK]], [[John F. Kennedy assassination|blown away]], what else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire<br/>
It was always burning<br/>
Since the world's been turning<br/>
We didn't start the fire<br/>
No we didn't light it<br/>
But we tried to fight it

[[Birth control]], [[Ho Chi Minh]], [[Richard Nixon]], back again<br/>
[[Moonshot]], [[Woodstock]], [[Watergate]], [[punk rock]]<br/>
[[Begin]], [[Reagan]], [[Palestine]], [[terrorism|terror on the airline]]<br/>
[[Ayatollolah|Ayatollolah's]] in [[Iran]], [[Russia|Russians]] in [[Afghanistan]]

''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', [[Sally Ride]], [[heavy metal]], [[suicide]]<br/>
[[Foreign debts]], [[homeless vets]], [[AIDS]], [[Crack]], [[Bernie Goetz]]<br/>
[[Hypodermics]] on the shores, [[China|China's]] under [[martial law]]<br/>
[[Rock and Roll|Rock and Roller]] [[Cola Wars]], I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire<br/>
It was always burning<br/>
Since the world's been turning<br/>
We didn't start the fire<br/>
No we didn't light it<br/>
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire<br/>
But when we are gone<br/>
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...