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Billy Joël: « We Didn’t Start The Fire »
Harry Truman, …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Doris Day, ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Red China, …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Johnnie Ray………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
South Pacific, …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Walter Winchell, ………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Joe DiMaggio……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Joe McCarthy, …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Richard Nixon, …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Studebaker, ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Television…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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We didn’t start the fire, Ce n’est pas nous qui avons allumé le feu
It was always burning, Il a toujours brulé
Since the world’s been turning Depuis que la terre tourne
We didn’t start the fire, No we didn’t light it,
But we tried to fight it Mais nous avons essayé de le combattre
Josef Stalin,………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Malenkov, ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Nasser ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
and Prokofiev……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Rockefeller, ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Campanella, ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Communist Bloc………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Roy Cohn,…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Juan Peron, ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Toscanini, ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Dacron……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Dien Bien Phu……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
and « 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 …………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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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……………………………………………………………………………………………….
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 …………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Hemingway, ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Eichmann, ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
« Stranger in a Strange Land » …………………………………………………………………………………….
Dylan, ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Berlin, ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Bay of Pigs Invasion …………………………………………………………………………………………………..
« Lawrence of Arabia »,……………………………………………………………………………………………….
British Beatle mania……………………………………………………………………………………………………
Ole Miss, …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
John Glenn, ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Liston beats ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Patterson……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Pope Paul, ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Malcolm X, ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
British politician sex …………………………………………………………………………………………………..
JFK, blown away, ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
what else do I have to say ?
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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 shore, ………………………………………………………………………………………….
China’s under martial law……………………………………………………………………………………………
Rock and Roller …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Cola Wars, …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
I can’t take it anymore !
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We didn’t start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on…
