We Didn't Start the Fire

Harry Truman
Doris Day
Red China
Johnnie Ray
South Pacific
Walter Winchell
Joe deMagio

Joe McCarthy
Richard Nixon
Studebaker
Television
North Korea
South Korea
Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs
H-bomb
Sugar Ray
P'ammunjom
Brando
The King and I
And The Catcher in the Rye
Eisenhow
Vaccine
England's got a new Queen
Marciano
Liberace
Satayana good bye

We didn't start the fire
It was always been burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Though we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it

Josef Stalin
Malenkov
Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller
Campanella
Communist bloc

Roy Cohn
Juan Peron
Toscanini
Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls
Rock around the clock
Einstein
James Dean
Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davey Crockett
Peter Pan
Elvis Presley
Disneyland
Bardot
Budapest
Alabamma
Krushchev
Princess Grace
Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always been burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Though we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it

Little rock
Pasternack
Mickey Mantle
Kerouac
Sputnik
Chou En-Lai
Bridge on the River Kwai
Lebanon
Charles de Gaul
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

We didn't start the fire
It was always been burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Though we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it

Hemingway
Eichmann
Stranger in a Strange Land
Build in Berlin
Dylan
Berlin
Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia
British Beatlemania
Ole miss
John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul
Malcolm X
British politican sex
JFK, blown away
What else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire
It was always been burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Though we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it

Birth control
Ho Chi Minh
Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot
Woodstock
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 shore
China's under marshal law
Rock and roller
Cola wars
I can't take it any more

We didn't start the fire
It was always been burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone will it still burn on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on

We didn't start the fire
It was always been burning since the world's been burning
We didn't start the fire
Though we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always been burning since the world's been burning
We didn't start the fire
Though we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always been burning since the world's been burning
We didn't start the fire
Though we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it