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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==

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

''([[1950]])''<br>
[[Joe McCarthy]], [[Richard Nixon]], [[Studebaker]], [[television]]<br/>
[[North Korea]], [[South Korea]], [[Marilyn Monroe]]

''([[1951]])''<br>
[[Ethel and Julius Rosenberg|Rosenbergs]], [[H-Bomb]], [[Sugar Ray Robinson|Sugar Ray]], [[Panmunjom]]<br/>
[[Marlon Brando|Brando]], ''[[The King and I]]'', and ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]''

''([[1952]])''<br>
[[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]], [[polio vaccine|vaccine]], [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|England's got a new queen]]<br/>
[[Rocky Marciano|Marciano]], [[Liberace]], [[George Santayana|Santayana]] goodbye

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

''([[1953]])''<br>
[[Joseph Stalin]], [[Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov|Malenkov]], [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]] and [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]<br/>
[[Winthrop Rockefeller|Rockefeller]], [[Roy Campanella|Campanella]], [[Communist bloc]]

''([[1954]])''<br>
[[Roy Cohn]], [[Juan Perón]], [[Arturo Toscanini|Toscanini]], [[dacron]]<br/>
[[Battle of Dien Bien Phu|Dien Bien Phu falls]], ''[[Rock Around the Clock]]''

''([[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]], [[History of Hungary#1956 Revolution|Budapest]], [[Montgomery Bus Boycott|Alabama]], [[Nikita Khrushchev|Khrushchev]]<br/>
[[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]], ''[[Peyton Place]]'', [[Suez Crisis|trouble in the 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 Crisis|Lebanon]], [[Charles de Gaulle]], [[Los Angeles Dodgers|California baseball]]<br/>
[[Charles Starkweather|Starkweather homicide]], [[thalidomide|children of thalidomide]]

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

''([[1960]])''<br>
[[U-2 Crisis of 1960|U-2]], [[Syngman Rhee]], [[payola]] and [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]]<br/>
[[Chubby Checker]], ''[[Psycho]]'', [[Belgian Congo|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

''([[1961]])''<br>
[[Ernest Hemingway|Hemingway]], [[Adolf Eichmann|Eichmann]], ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]''<br/>
[[Bob Dylan|Dylan]], [[Berlin Wall|Berlin]], [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]]

''([[1962]])''<br>
''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'', [[The Beatles|British Beatlemania]]<br/>
[[University of Mississippi|Ole Miss]], [[John Glenn]], [[Sonny Liston|Liston]] beats [[Floyd Patterson|Patterson]]

''([[1963]])''<br>
[[Pope Paul VI|Pope Paul]], [[Malcolm X]], [[Profumo Affair|British politician sex]]<br/>
[[John F. Kennedy assassination|JFK 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


''([[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]], [[aircraft hijacking|terror on the airline]]<br/>
[[Ruhollah Khomeini|Ayatollahs in Iran]], [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan#The_Soviet_invasion,_December_1979|Russians in Afghanistan]]

''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', [[Sally Ride]], [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]], [[suicide]]<br/>
[[Foreign debt]]s, [[Vietnam veteran|homeless vets]], [[AIDS]], [[cocaine|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]], [[Coca-Cola#History|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...The full lyrics are copyrighted, but here are the people, places and events listed in the song, in order of mention.

[[1949]]: [[Harry Truman]], [[Doris Day]], [[People's Republic of China]], [[Johnnie Ray]], ''[[South Pacific]]'', [[Walter Winchell]], [[Joe DiMaggio]]

[[1950]]: [[Joe McCarthy]], [[Richard Nixon]], [[Studebaker]], [[television]], [[North Korea]], [[South Korea]], [[Marilyn Monroe]]

[[1951]]: [[Ethel and Julius Rosenberg]], [[H-Bomb]], [[Sugar Ray Robinson]], [[Panmunjom]], [[Marlon Brando]], ''[[The King and I]]'', ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]''

[[1952]]: [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]], [[polio vaccine]], [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]], [[Rocky Marciano]], [[Liberace]], [[George Santayana]]

[[1953]]: [[Joseph Stalin]], [[Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov]], [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], [[Sergei Prokofiev]], [[Winthrop Rockefeller]], [[Roy Campanella]], [[Communist bloc]]

[[1954]]: [[Roy Cohn]], [[Juan Perón]], [[Arturo Toscanini]], [[dacron]], 
[[Battle of Dien Bien Phu]], ''[[Rock Around the Clock]]''

[[1955]]: [[Albert Einstein]], [[James Dean]], [[Brooklyn Dodgers]], [[Davy Crockett]], ''[[Peter Pan]]'', [[Elvis Presley]], [[Disneyland]]

[[1956]]: [[Brigitte Bardot]], [[History of Hungary#1956 Revolution]], [[Montgomery Bus Boycott]], [[Nikita Khrushchev]], [[Grace Kelly]], ''[[Peyton Place]]'', [[Suez Crisis]]

[[1957]]: [[Little Rock Crisis]], [[Boris Pasternak]], [[Mickey Mantle]], [[Jack Kerouac]], [[Sputnik program]], [[Zhou Enlai]], ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]''

[[1958]]: [[Lebanon Crisis]], [[Charles de Gaulle]], [[Los Angeles Dodgers]], 
[[Charles Starkweather]], [[thalidomide]]

[[1959]]: [[Buddy Holly]], ''[[Ben-Hur]]'', [[Ham the Chimp]], [[Mafia]], [[hula hoop]], [[Fidel Castro]], [[Edsel]]

[[1960]]: [[U-2 Crisis of 1960]], [[Syngman Rhee]], [[payola]], [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Chubby Checker]], ''[[Psycho]]'', [[Belgian Congo]]

[[1961]]: [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Adolf Eichmann]], ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'', [[Bob Dylan]], [[Berlin Wall]], [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]]

[[1962]]: ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'', [[The Beatles]], [[University of Mississippi]], [[John Glenn]], [[Sonny Liston]], [[Floyd Patterson]]

[[1963]]: [[Pope Paul VI]], [[Malcolm X]], [[Profumo Affair]], [[John F. Kennedy assassination]]

[[1964]]-[[1989]]: [[Birth control]], [[Ho Chi Minh]], [[U.S. presidential election, 1968]], [[Apollo 11]], [[Woodstock]], [[Watergate]], [[punk rock]], 
[[Menachem Begin]], [[Ronald Reagan]], [[Palestine]], [[aircraft hijacking]], 
[[Ruhollah Khomeini]], [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan#The_Soviet_invasion,_December_1979]], ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', [[Sally Ride]], [[heavy metal music]], [[suicide]], [[Foreign debt]]s, [[Vietnam veteran]], [[AIDS]], [[cocaine]], [[Bernhard Goetz]], [[Syringe]], [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]], [[Rock and Roll]], [[Coca-Cola#History]]