Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie RaySouth Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn MonroeRosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, PanmunjomBrando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye" Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new QueenMarciano, 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 and Prokofiev

Rockefeller, Campanella, CommunistBloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron

Dien Bien Phufalls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev

PrincessGrace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez



CHORUS



Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, Californiabaseball

Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", spacemonkey, 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", BritishBeatlemania

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, 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

Foreigndebts, homelessvets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law

Rock and roller, colawars, 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...