| 1 | ====== Original Lyrics ====== |
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| 2 | Created Friday 23 January 2009 |
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| 4 | http://www.teacheroz.com/fire.htm |
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| 5 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire |
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| 7 | Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray |
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| 8 | South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio |
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| 10 | Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television |
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| 11 | North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe |
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| 13 | Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom |
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| 14 | Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye" |
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| 16 | Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen |
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| 17 | Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye |
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| 19 | CHORUS |
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| 20 | We didn't start the fire |
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| 21 | It was always burning |
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| 22 | Since the world's been turning |
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| 23 | We didn't start the fire |
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| 24 | No we didn't light it |
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| 25 | But we tried to fight it |
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| 27 | Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev |
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| 28 | Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc |
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| 30 | Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron |
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| 31 | Dien Bien Phu and "Rock Around the Clock" |
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| 33 | Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team |
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| 34 | Davy Crockett, "Peter Pan", Elvis Presley, Disneyland |
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| 36 | Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev |
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| 37 | Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | CHORUS |
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| 41 | Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac |
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| 42 | Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai" |
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| 44 | Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball |
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| 45 | Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide |
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| 47 | Buddy Holly, "Ben-Hur", space monkey, Mafia |
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| 48 | hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go |
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| 50 | U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy |
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| 51 | Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo |
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| 53 | CHORUS |
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| 55 | Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land" |
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| 56 | Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion |
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| 58 | "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania |
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| 59 | Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson |
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| 61 | Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex |
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| 62 | JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say |
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| 64 | CHORUS |
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| 66 | Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, back again |
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| 67 | Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock |
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| 68 | Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline |
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| 69 | Ayatollolah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan |
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| 71 | "Wheel of Fortune" , Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide |
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| 72 | Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz |
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| 73 | Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law |
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| 74 | Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore |
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| 76 | CHORUS |
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| 78 | We didn't start the fire |
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| 79 | But when we are gone |
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| 80 | Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on... |
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