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We Didn't Start the Fire lyrics
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Ca
mpanella, Communist Bloc
Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
CHORUS
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
CHORUS
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
CHORUS
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodsto/ck/, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the
airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
Part of these releases
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- Track 10 on Movin' Out
- 9 Waltz #1
- 11 She's Got a Way
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- Track 7 on 1973-97-Complete Hits Collection Disc 3
- 6 Leningrad
- 8 I Go to Extremes
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- Track 8 on 1973-97-Complete Hits Collection Disc 4
- 7 History Through Music
- 9 Music Source
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- Track 7 on Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol. 3
- 6 Leningrad
- 8 I Go to Extremes
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- Track 11 on My Lives Disc 5
- 10 Goodnight Saigon
- 12 Hard Day's Night
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- Track 4 on Live at Shea Stadium Disc 2
- 3 The River Of Dreams/A Hard Day's Night
- 5 You May Be Right
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- Track 18 on Live at Shea Stadium Disc 3
- 17 The River Of Dreams/A Hard Day's Night
- 19 You May Be Right
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- Track 10 on Movin’ Out (Original Broadway Cast)
- 9 Waltz
- 11 She's Got a Way
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- Track 2 on Storm Front
- 1 That's Not Her Style
- 3 The Downeaster “Alexa”
- 3 The Downeaster "Alexa"
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- Track 1 on We Didn't Start The Fire
- 2 Just the Way You Are
- 2 I Go to Extremes
- 2 House Of Blue Light
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- Track 1 on Unlicensed Live
- 2 My Life
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Grace 0 points
Billy Joel is my dad's favorite singer so I like his music. Hard to believe my dad knows every word to ALL of Billy Joel's songs. Billy Joel has to use a cheat sheet on the back of his guitar for this song, but is is hard to sing and it is really fast paced.