’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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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning, since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
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’53 ? Josef 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, Khrushchev
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Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
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We didn't start the fire (start the fire)
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It was always burning, since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
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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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Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
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’59 ? (Wuh hah eh) Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
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Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
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’60 ? 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 (oh oh oh oh oh)
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(Ohh ohh) It was always burning, since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
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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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J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say-ay-ay-ay
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning, since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
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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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We didn't start the fire (oh oh oh, whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh)
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It was always burning since the world's been turning.
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(Oh oh oh) We didn't start the fire, but when we are gone
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It will still burn on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning, since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
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We didn't start the fire yeah yeah
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It was always burning, since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire, yeah yeah yeah
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We Didn't Start The Fire (12 Gardens Live)
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| Billy Joel |
