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'49 Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
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South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
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'50 Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
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North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
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'51 Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
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Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
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'52 Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new Queen
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Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
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CHORUS
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning
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Since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
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No we didn't light it
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But we tried to fight it
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'53 Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
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Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
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'54 Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
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Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
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'55 Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
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Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
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'56 Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
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Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
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CHORUS
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'57 Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
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Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
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'58 Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
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Starkweather, homicide, Children of Thalidomide
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'59 Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
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Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
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'60 U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
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Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
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CHORUS
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'61 Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
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Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
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'62 "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
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Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
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'63 Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
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JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
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CHORUS
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'64 - '89 Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
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Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
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Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
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Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
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"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
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Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
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Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
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Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore
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CHORUS
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We didn't start the fire
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But when we are gone
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Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
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We Didn`t Start The Fire
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| Billy Joel |
