We Didnt Start The Fire — текст песни (Joel Billy)

49 harry truman, doris day, red china, johnnie ray

South pacific, walter winchell, joe dimaggio



50 joe mccarthy, richard nixon, studebaker, television

North korea, south korea, marilyn monroe



51 rosenbergs, h-bomb, sugar ray, panmunjom

Brando, "the king and i" and "the catcher in the rye"



52 eisenhower, vaccine, englands got a new queen

Marciano, liberace, santayana goodbye



Chorus

We didnt start the fire

It was always burning

Since the worlds been turning

We didnt start the fire

No we didnt light it

But we tried to fight it



53 joseph stalin, malenkov, nasser and prokofiev

Rockefeller, campanella, communist bloc



54 roy cohn, juan peron, toscanini, dacron

Dien bien phu falls, "rock around the clock"



55 einstein, james dean, brooklyns got a winning team

Davy crockett, peter pan, elvis presley, disneyland



56 bardot, budapest, alabama, krushchev

Princess grace, "peyton place", trouble in the suez



Chorus



57 little rock, pasternak, mickey mantle, kerouac

Sputnik, chou en-lai, "bridge on the river kwai"



58 lebanon, charles de gaulle, california baseball

Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide



59 buddy holly, "ben hur", space monkey, mafia

Hula hoops, castro, edsel is a no-go



60 u-2, syngman rhee, payola and kennedy

Chubby checker, "psycho", belgians in the congo



Chorus



61 hemingway, eichmann, "stranger in a strange land"

Dylan, berlin, bay of pigs invasion



62 "lawrence of arabia", british beatlemania

Ole miss, john glenn, liston beats patterson



63 pope paul, malcolm x, british politician sex

Jfk, blown away, what else do I have to say



Chorus



64 - 89 birth control, ho chi minh, richard nixon back again

Moonshot, woodstock, watergate, punk rock

Begin, reagan, palestine, terror on the airline

Ayatollahs 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, chinas under martial law

Rock and roller cola wars, I cant take it anymore



Chorus



We didnt start the fire

But when we are gone

Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...