Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song We Didn't Start the Fire, artist - Billy Joel. Date of issue: 09.06.2013
We Didn't Start the Fire |
| 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 |
| 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 aand Prokofiev |
| Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc |
| Roy hn, Juan Peron, 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, Krushchev |
| 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, Charlse 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 |
| 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, 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 |
| 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, Woodstoock, 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 |
| But when we are gone |
| Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on... |
| We didn't start the fire |
| But when we are gone |
| Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| We didn't start the fire |
| It was always burning |
| Since the world's been turning |
| We didn't start the fire... |