Harry Truman Doris Day, Red China Johnny Ray,
South Pacific Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio!
Joe McCarthy Richard Nixon, studebaker televion,
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!

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,
Starkweather homicide! CHILDREN OF THALIDOMIDE!

Oh, uh oh...
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,"
Dyllllan, Berrrrrlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion!
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania,
Ole Miss...John Glenn..Liston beats Patterson!
Pope Paul Malcolm X, British politician sex,
JFK! BLOWN AWAY! WHAT ELSE DO I HAFTA 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!
Ayatollolah'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!
No we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it!


We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone,
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on....

oh that's a good song!

^_^

(headbangs)