We Didn't Start The Fire

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray 
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio 

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

Rosenbergs, Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom 
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye 

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen 
Maciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye 

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 and Prokofiev 
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc 

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron 
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, Khrushchev 
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez 

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 

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac 
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai 

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball 
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide 
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia 
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go 

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy 
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo 

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 

Hemingway, Eichman, 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  
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say 

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 

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 shores, China's under martial law 
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore 

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