We didnt start the Fire

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 History has been an ever-moving concept and the state of the world is not the fault of those currently living in it.

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie RaySouth Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggioJoe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, televisionNorth Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, PanmunjomBrando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queenMarciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye
 

 

 
We didn't start the fireIt was always burning, since the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
 
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and ProkofievRockefeller, Campanella, Communist BlocRoy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, DacronDien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning teamDavy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, DisneylandBardot, Budapest, Alabama, KrushchevPrincess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
 
We didn't start the fire
 
  It was always burning, since the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
 
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, KerouacSputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseballStarkweather homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafiaHula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-goU2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and KennedyChubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
 
 
We didn't start the fireIt was always burning, since the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion"Lawrence of Arabia", British BeatlemaniaOle Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats PattersonPope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say?
 

 
We didn't start the fireIt was always burning, since the world's been turningWe 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 againMoonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rockBegin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airlineAyatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal suicideForeign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie GoetzHypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law
 
 
 Rock and roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore
 
 
We didn't start the fireIt was always burning, since the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireBut when we are goneIt will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
We didn't start the fireIt was always burning, since the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fireIt was always burning, since the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fireIt was always burning, since the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
 
 

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