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We Didnt Start the Fire Lyrics – Billy Joel

    Billy Joel We Didnt Start the Fire Lyrics

    We Didnt Start the Fire is a popular song by Billy Joel from the 1989 album Storm Front. Check words to Billy Joel We Didn t Start the Fire Lyrics in English below.

    We Didnt Start the Fire Lyrics – Billy Joel 

    [Verse 1]
    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
    [Verse 2]
    Joseph 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

    [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

    [Verse 3]
    Little Rock, Pasternak
    Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
    Sputnik, Zhou En-lai
    Bridge On The River Kwai
    Lebanon, Charles 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
    [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

    [Verse 4]
    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?

    [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
    [Verse 5]
    Birth control, Ho Chi Minh
    Richard Nixon back again
    Moonshot, Woodstock
    Watergate, punk rock
    Begin, Reagan, Palestine
    Terror on the airline
    Ayatollahs 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

    [Chorus]
    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

    [Outro]
    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
    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

     

    Writer(s): Billy Joel

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