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The Lyrics to "We Didn't Start the Fire"
[edit]These are the lyrics to the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel, formatted into paragraphs. Each event mentioned in the song is linked to the Wikipedia page of what the lyric references.
Verse One
[edit]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
Verse Two
[edit]Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser, and Prokofiev, Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc, Roy Cohn, Juan Perón, 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, Kruschev, Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
Verse Three
[edit]Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge on the River Kwai, Lebanon, Charles 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
Verse Four
[edit]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?
Verse Five
[edit]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 martial law, rock and roller Cola Wars
I can't take it anymore