  BILLY JOEL- 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 good-bye . CHORUS We didn't start the fire  It was always burning,  Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire  Well we didn't light it,  But we tried to fight it. Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist bloc, Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Tosconini, Dacron,  Dien Bien Phu falls, 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. CHORUS We didn't start the fire  It was always burning,  Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire  Well we didn't light it,  But we tried to fight it. 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, U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola, and Kennedy,  Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo. CHORUS We didn't start the fire  It was always burning,  Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire  Well 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 Beatlemania,  Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson,  Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex,  JFK blown away, What else do I have to say? CHORUS We didn't start the fire  It was always burning,  Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire  Well we didn't light it,  But we tried to fight it.
Birth control, Ho Chi-Minh, Richard Nixon back again,  Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate,Punk Rock,  Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airlines Ayatollahs 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 any more!
We didn't start the fire  It was always burning,  Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire  But when we are gone  It will still burn on and on and on and on..... CHORUS ________________________ WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?? This is an awesome Billy Joel song...
I was looking up the lyrics and found this interesting site... I never realized that each verse was indicating the important events of each year since 1949 (I think that's when Billy was born). urlLink Check it out 
