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'''We Didn't Start the Fire''' is a [[song]] by [[Billy Joel]] that lists major events in his lifetime, from 1949 to 1989.

==Lyrics==


''([[1949]])''<br>
[[Harry Truman]], [[Doris Day]], [[People's Republic of China|Red China]], [[Johnnie Ray]]<br/>
''[[South Pacific]]'', [[Walter Winchell]], [[Joe DiMaggio]]
(contracted; show full)

''([[1955]])''<br>
[[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], [[James Dean]], [[Brooklyn Dodgers|Brooklyn's got a winning team]]<br/>
[[Davy Crockett]], ''[[Peter Pan]]'', [[Elvis Presley]], [[Disneyland]]

''([[1956]])''<br>
[[Brigitte Bardot|Bardot]], [[Budapest]], [[Alabama]], [[Nikita Khrushchev|Khrushchev]]<br/>
[[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]], ''[[Peyton Place]]'', trouble in the [[Suez Crisis
 | |Suez]]

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

''([[1957]])''<br>
[[Little Rock Crisis|Little Rock]], [[Boris Pasternak|Pasternak]], [[Mickey Mantle]], [[Jack Kerouac|Kerouac]]<br/>
[[Sputnik program|Sputnik]], [[Zhou Enlai|Chou En-lai]], ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai | |Bridge on the River Kwai]]''

''([[1958]])''<br>
[[Lebanon]], [[Charles de Gaulle]], [[California]] [[baseball]]<br/>
[[Charles Starkweather | |Starkweather homicide]], [[thalidomide|children of thalidomide]]

''([[1959]])''<br>
[[Buddy Holly]], ''[[Ben-Hur]]'', [[space]] [[monkey]], [[Mafia]]<br/>
[[hula hoops]], [[Fidel Castro|Castro]], [[Edsel]] is a no go

''([[1960]])''<br>
[[Lockheed U-2|U-2]], [[Syngman Rhee]], [[payola]] and [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]]<br/>
(contracted; show full)
''([[1964]]-[[1989]])''<br>
[[Birth control]], [[Ho Chi Minh]], [[Richard Nixon]] back again<br/>
[[Apollo 11|Moonshot]], [[Woodstock]], [[Watergate]], [[punk rock]]<br/>
[[Menachem Begin|Begin]], [[Reagan]], [[Palestine]], [[terrorism|terror on the airline]]<br/>
[[Ayatollah]]s in [[Iran]], [[Russia|Russians]] in [[Afghanistan]]

''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', [[Sally Ride]], [[heavy metal music
 | |heavy metal]], [[suicide]]<br/>
[[Foreign debts]], [[homelessness|homeless]] [[Vietnam veteran|vets]], [[AIDS]], [[crack]], [[Bernhard Goetz|Bernie Goetz]]<br/>
[[Hypodermic]]s on the shore, [[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...