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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]]

''([[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/>
[[Nelson 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>
[[Lockheed U-2|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]], [[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...