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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)We didn't start the fire<br/>
No we didn't light it<br/>
But we tried to fight it

''([[1964]]-[[1989]])''<br>
[[Birth control]], [[Ho Chi Minh]], [[U.S. presidential election, 1968|Richard Nixon back again]]<br/>
[[Apollo 11|Moonshot]], [[Woodstock]], [[Watergate]], [[punk rock]]<br/>
[[Menachem Begin|Begin]], [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]], [[Palestine]], [[
terrorismaircraft hijacking|terror on the airline]]<br/>
[[Ruhollah Khomeini|Ayatollahs in Iran]], [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan|Russians in Afghanistan]]

''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', [[Sally Ride]], [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]], [[suicide]]<br/>
[[Foreign debts]], [[Vietnam veteran|homeless vets]], [[AIDS]], [[crack]], [[Bernhard Goetz|Bernie Goetz]]<br/>
[[Syringe|Hypodermics on the shore]], [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989|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...