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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)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

[[Little Rock
 Crisis]], [[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]]


[[Buddy Holly]], ''[[Ben Hur]]'', [[space]] [[monkey]], [[Mafia]]<br/>
(contracted; show full)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...