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Titel: WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE
Interpret: BILLY JOEL
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1949 Harry Truman, Doris day, Red China, Johnnie Ray,
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe Di Maggio.
1950 Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television,
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe.
1951 Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom,
Brando, The King And I and The Catcher In The Rye.
1952 Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen,
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana good-bye.
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.
1953 Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev,
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc.
1954 Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron,
Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around The Clock.
1955 Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team,
David Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
1956 Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev,
Princess grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez.
We didn't start the fire,...
1957 Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac,
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai.
1958 Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball,
Starkweather, Hoicide, Children of Thalidomide.
1959 Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia,
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go.
1960 U 2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy,
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo.
We didn't start the fire,...
1961 Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger In A Strange Land,
Dylan, Berlin, Bay Of Pigs Invasion.
1962 Lawrence Of Arabia, British Beatlemania,
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson.
1963 Pope Paul, Malcolm X., British Politician Sex,
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?
We didn't start the fire,...
64-89 Birth Control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again,
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punk Rock.
Begin, reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline,
Ayatollah'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,...
we didn't start the fire,...