Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
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South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
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Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
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North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
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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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Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
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Maciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
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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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Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
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Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
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Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
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Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
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Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
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Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
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Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
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Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
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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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Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
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Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
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Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
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Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
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Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
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Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
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U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
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Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
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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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Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land
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Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
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Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
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Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
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J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say
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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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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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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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We Didn't Start The Fire
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| Billy Joel |
