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We didn't start the fire

odris

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odris Grand Master

odris

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Amazingly i have only heard this song for the first time today, very catchy.

 

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And the lyrics if you want to sing alone (i know you do)

 

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

 

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

 

 

Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

 

Roy Cohn, 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, 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, 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

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

But when we are gone

It will 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...

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Lupin Collaborator

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'We didn't start the fire' is an appalling jingoistic apologia for American foreign policy of the last 50 years.

 

'We didn't start the fire' - nooooo...we just sold weapons to all sides and sent the CIA in to light the blue touchpaper and moved in on the ruins, importing our own brand of commercial imperialism. America good everyone else bad pinko scum who want to lay big ones on our back lawn.

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Section_31 Grand Master

Section_31

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'We didn't start the fire' is an appalling jingoistic apologia for American foreign policy of the last 50 years.

 

'We didn't start the fire' - nooooo...we just sold weapons to all sides and sent the CIA in to light the blue touchpaper and moved in on the ruins, importing our own brand of commercial imperialism. America good everyone else bad pinko scum who want to lay big ones on our back lawn.

 

Not as catchy though is it to be fair?

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redheart Veteran

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This is a clip I shot of Billy Joel singing this live at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in late 2008

 

 

 

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kopitegaz Veteran

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Looks like it was released 8 months before i was born, just missed out on that one.

 

I was born 2 years after the Beatles split up, but I know their songs.

 

Also, if Sherry is thinking of negging you for making her feel old, at 32, then I am 36, and its possible I might too.

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If anyone has nt seen the liverpool version of we didn't start the fire on youtube u can find it on by typing in 'liverpool rome 2009 song' and it should be the first result up!

 

Id post it but I cant post urls becasue I havent enough posts made yet! :wallbutt:

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