We Didn't Start The Fire

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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie 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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Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye



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We didn't start the fire
        Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
       Em                     C
No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it



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Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
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Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
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Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
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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, Krushchev
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Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez


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We didn't start the fire
        Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
       C                      Am
No we didn't light it 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, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
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Starkweather, 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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U-2, 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
        Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
       Em                     C
No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it


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Hemingway, Eichmann, 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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JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say


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We didn't start the fire
        Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
       Em                     C
No we didn't light it 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
        Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
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But when we are gone it will still burn on, and on, and on, and on


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We didn't start the fire
        Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
       Em                     C
No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it
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We didn't start the fire
        Em                       C
It was always burning since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
       Em                     C
No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it