We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel - WITH LYRICS

[MikeMafiaII]

0:44 fuck a capatalist got in the country!!!!!!

[maddyastro123]

"We didn't start the fire... It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin'..."

[Slmfireweed2]

This video makes me wanna travel back in time.

[AmericanGirlCrazy123]

My LA teacher is making us rewrite 2 verses of this song.

[dalmation1080]

Watched this in English class!

[TheMakingOfAlice]

Our Geography teacher showed us this today, and now i'm obsessed. <3 ( and this is coming from a 13 year old who hates older music )

[Thebestplayer969]

I learned more in this song than my entire year of history class!!!!!!

[jdmifsud14]

@Thebestplayer969 There's a lot of other stuff that this song does not cover. Still a great song integrated with History!

[totaltwinconnection2]

I just realized that we learned about most of ths in my history class!!

[setmeplz1]

Chuck Norris started the fire o.O

[MrConredsX]

wasnt suppose to be "Rock&Roll and Cold wars i cant take it anymore"???

[PitFantastic]

@MrConredsX nope. Cola wars, referring to Coke v Pepsi



[AJCRockiesFan1]

Wrong U2, the song is talking about the spy plane, not the band.

[LeGeneralZhou]

@AJCRockiesFan1 lol ikr.........

[ImWrittenInTheStars]

My social studies teacher played this song maybe 40 times in first quarter. Great song. But I hate you, Mr Holtz.

From Nora

[captainspikester1]

105 people DID start the fire.

[krawczyk126]

I kurwa love that ...

[ImmortalSpirit1]

Great video! 

[lobstertexas]

Just for funzies, the U2 he was singing about was probably the spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, judging from the context of the events mentioned around it in the song.. The band came around much later ;p

Also, I think he's saying "Heavy metal suicide" referencing the court cases in the early 80s against Judas Priest and Metallica brought by parents of kids who killed themselves, claiming there were Satanic suicidal messages in heavy metal song lyrics.. not Jonestown (1979)

[kevin05]

we started the fire not we didnt

[TheGovenor88]

If your unsure of THE SUEZ CANAL just google it, but just so your aware, its a very large artificial canal/river that connects the mediterranean sea an the red sea. It just allows ships to pass through between Europe an Asia.

[chillaxer1993]

@TheGovenor88 also people dont probably know that europe controlled it and egypt tried taking back in the 50s or 60s under nasser

[eveslmatrix]

azaug1little wayne IS NOT music. he is garbage. have some actual taste.

[Jackvermillian]

@eveslmatrix AMEN!

[eveslmatrix]

@sovietninja3 either way it works.

[carlito197]

U2 fail at 2:23. But nice video

[sk8terdude96]

=O thats not the beatles. those are wanna be's

[spyware60]

103 people can't lit a fire.

[panconpasta1]

I. LOVE. THIS. SONG.

[jonpromaster]

ha ha 103 people work for the fire department

[Dragonschain]

haha he put U2 the band

[SollyG98]

headbanging to this in history today.

[theMusicalCake]

@SollyG98 do you have a teacher named Mr. P?

[skatekayleexoxo]

@theMusicalCake i do...his name is Mr. pinnock or somthing

[0rgasm0tron]

@theMusicalCake I have a teacher named Mr. Elliot, not sure if where talking about the same guy though.

[Phoenix258]

Why is there no top comment? Prehaps i should take an arrow to the knee....

[XxSharpieItBlackxX]

Jfk blown away.... Lololol

[rachel2000ify]

fucking liar

[sovietninja3]

its supposed to be the U-2 incident, not the band U2

[shockingzombie242]

Hey. Whats trouble in the suez?

[sovietninja3]

@shockingzombie242 there was some problems between nations over who got to control the Suez canal

[EnglishGavz]

@shockingzombie242 In the 50's Egypt took control of their river, and got rid of foreign investors like France or the UK, who promptly asked Israel to invade, so they could pretend to be liberators when they invaded and took control of the Suez. The rest of the world wasn't cool with this and France and the UK were forced to leave.

[fazekaslaszlo]

@shockingzombie242 in the lyrics Budapest-Hruschev-Trouble in the Suez all go together as events in the end of 1956 (the Soviets occupied Hungary and the UN didn't object because Britain and France occupied the Suez the)

[shockingzombie242]

Man this way I can learn easier

[susankohistany]

I always heard " James Dean" in this and just this year I watched his movies and realized who he was.

[christywilliams0808]

Good Job!

[LoremHand]

When he said "Nixon's back again!" I nearly died...

[arunk279]

ok, this is a retarded question but I would love an answer. what does this song mean? they just say some names, events, movie names...

[EnglishGavz]

@arunk279 The song was more a pet project Joel wrote when he turned 40, wondering what had happened since in his life (than 1949-89), so he wrote lyrics of than put a tune to it. I don't know why it's so popular, maybe it's an expression of his chaotic generation, but it's popular.

[arunk279]

@EnglishGavz ok... thanks for explaining...

[99angrybeavers]

@arunk279 about the 60s,70s people got blamed for stuff

[jasontheodosakis]

Turkish Agents started the fires in the Lovely Greece.

The establishment must now be broken

The truth must be seen

Goodbye from Greece...

[iamz00bs]

@brutaxx God did duhhhhhh

[69iMoDz69]

@brutaxx hees saying that our generation never started all these wars and problems but our great grandfathers and great great grandfathers and even more beyond but what hees trying to protest about is y don't we stop what started before we were born

[michaelbianchi22]

When he was talking about U2, he didn't mean the band. He meant the spy plane which was shot down over Russia.

[joberfeld113]

@brutal. Good question that will likely be to hard to answer.

[brutaxx]

if we didnt start the fire?... WHO DID?

[candkatie11]

My teacher showed this to us in class today... I have Bridgette Bardot to do for a bumper sticker O_o

[ksomogyi]

1:41 :):)

[OrangeandLeek]

brings out ur true colors of the war 5

[EnglishGavz]

Would it be frowned upon to cite Joel, Billy, We Didn't Start the Fire, Storm Front, 1989 in my History Bibliography?

[RawrInYawrHeart]

That awesome moment when you and Marilyn Monroe have a moment.

[mmccarthy76co]

101 ppl started the fire!

[crankfire1]

One of his best

[whyyoubroke]

Y do idiots fight on YouTube?????...get a life lames....-_-

[metricmander]

it's not even a picture of the real beatles...

[Annalieselief]

comepleteley awesome :D good job!

[stevegoff420]

Foreign Debt lyric??? How abut Homeland Debt today of $15,000,000,000,000....LMAO

Who knew in 1989? > Ron Paul did....thats who

[TheChibiTohru]

I woke up with this song stuck in my head.

[MrStaxxy]

lol, when he sung " Charles De Gaulles ", the author of this video showed the ship...

GODDAMIT §§§§§§ CHARLES DE GAULLES SHIP WAS BORN AFTER THIS SONG §

HE TALKED ABOUT THE VISIONNARY !!!§§§

[SpadaccinoLuciano]

@MrStaxxy Well, fuck the Frog.

[MrStaxxy]

@SpadaccinoLuciano

Go eat your hamburger and get fat & stupid, like your fellow that take the simpsons or american dad for a reference.

[SpadaccinoLuciano]

@MrStaxxy Non je parle "nous remes", ma petite chou-fluer! But thanks for admitting my country is more successful than yours!

[MrStaxxy]

@SpadaccinoLuciano

what is " nous remes " ?

At least I can be understood in a foreign language, you obviously can't.

And my country gave birth to your, smart ass.

[arga400]

@MrStaxxy i fail to see how eating a hamburger is gonna make you stupid, fat yeah sure but stupid? are you fucking kidding?

[bayblazemax]

History lesson in a song.

[DRMaxwellEdisonm]

2:51 WTF

[kmoser444]

That's not The Beatles! and U2 is a spy plane!

[Kaitlyn102798]

Ryan did...

[beatlefreak59]

2:51 ....Thats not them.....

[FreshGreenzz]

i got a final in my rock n roll history class on this song in about 30 min. need to know all the events, the dates and what happened during them... this class was supposed to be easy

[DII117]

@FreshGreenzz No such thing as an easy A.

[WatchMeNow93]

lmao great song

[BigTeamButch]

We didn't start the fire, but we kept it burning. :/

[Maliipv10]

you gotta get an award for learning the complete lyrics!

[captainLittleViking]

ya dude=e ypu got the wrong u2 its the U2 spy plane

[AGpixar2000]

this is way to catchy

[GoldenGolfer3]

thanks to this song i was like the only kid in my class who knew about the trouble in the Suez

[360Nomad]

I used to start the fire, then I took an arrow in the knee.

[DeltaGolf72]

Good job!



[AlgaMackinac]

Happy Birthday Lucy Mary DiPietro-DiMauro - A Job For A Job. Tuesday, December 13, 2011 (Common People Eternity), 9:30 AM (Eastern Standard Time)

[FutureTrophyWife96]

as soon as 2030 rolls around, they should make a remake!

[LazyNightz]

100 people started the fire

[JAlberto37]

Like if you heard this song in Two and half men!

[austin526515]

could you imagine a song about then and today? it would be an hour long

[chemicalfear420]

i think you have the wrong sugar ray i believe he was a boxer.

[Spetsnazdan]

100 people started the fire.

[yiad100]

look at whats happening to the world the way it is changing and we still argue about Justin bebir.....................path­etic

[daj4444]

Like this video and song if you LOVE history!

[BrotherOfThree]

why is there a dislike button?

[starwarsmattyboy]

I feel so epic when i sing this in rounds with my friends at school

[FlawdaFootball]

Massive debt, oil spikes, kidnapped tikes, stocks crash, just another news flash;

Chinese smog, Canadian hockey mob, Newt Gingrich, tax the rich, Herman Cain, what a pain;

Euro crisis, food prices, recalled cars, Dancing With the Stars, Afghan and Iraq wars - I can't take it anymore!

[smill1985]

@FlawdaFootball Nice! You might need to make an updated version of this song. If you get lucky, maybe Billy Joel will co-write it with you, ha ha.

[GhostintheMachine091]

@FlawdaFootball

Oil in the Gulf, beatles mostly lost, Obama takes the white house;

Euro debt, Greece in fret, American Idol, Digital TV , Mittney offers Perry a 10 grand bet

[DeAztec62]

@FlawdaFootball timing is wrong

[RawrInYawrHeart]

@FlawdaFootball That had the worst flow ever. Oh my gosh.

[FlawdaFootball]

@RawrInYawrHeart Thanks for your comment. I'm going to go hang myself now for shaming my family.

[runnerkid458]

@FlawdaFootball This is awesome. If i may though I suggest some minor editing

Chinese smog, hockey mob, gingrich (just draw out his name a bit), tax the rich....

Dancing with the stars is a bit awkward too, though i'm not sure how to change that... I'd love to help you remake the whole song though

[Haxpatty]

@FlawdaFootball You forgot youtube! =D

[Piantanida31]

What video editing software did you use? Thanks!

[susankohistany]

I cant believe the uploader put U2 the band instead of the PLANES

[AroreForLife]

@susankohistany this irks me...

[ALLYOUREXES]

@susankohistany And who the hell is that supposed to be in the picture of the Beatles?? If those are the Beatles, I'm Bridgette Bardot...

[BabyInReno]

Those aren't the Beatles

[jamnaz79]

Thank you Billy for giving me a passion for history. When I was a kid I would stay up every night and listen on my player to this song till I fell asleep.

[GreenGoSolar]

☼ #SOLAR ♫ #LOVE ♥ ·Liberty ∞

[nobless665]

98 people stared the fire

[rhyland214]

92 people don't like history

[Thelastoftheheros]

Kennady was shot from the grassy knoll!!!!

[susankohistany]

@Thelastoftheheros Kennedy was killed by LBJ and his boyfriends

[deadrecknin1]

Haha u2 lol

[snolsen85]

did not now that it wasnt the band u2 he ment, but the u2 spyplanes. that´s nice to know

[Doublel12345]

holy fucking dogshit cowboy..



[niterainbow47]

JFK BLOWN A WAY, WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY!!!!!!!!!!

[niterainbow47]

That's noy the fucking beatles

[davidls11]

@niterainbow47 You're right, it's noy them.

[niterainbow47]

Why isn't my name in this!!!??

[niterainbow47]

The one Devil started the fire

[nhipger]

We still didn't start the fire

[Jay98ify]

When he says Charles de Gaulle- he means the French President not the aircraft carrier.

[AlgaMackinac]

I am still waiting for full and complete disclosure. Thursday, November 24, 2011 (C.E.), (Thanksgiving Day 2011), 6:18 AM (Eastern Standard Time)

[lindsaythespacecadet]

wtf is with "Belgians in the the congo" potrayed as people rowing a boat on a river? this is a reference to the belgian failed attempt at colonialism.

[totorialtop]

this is better than the original video from billy joel than i didn´t never understand

[bedtime420]

Terror on the air lines?.. hmmm

[RoyalBarrel]

I'm 13 and i like this, why does every one else hate it?!?!

[Yuyo1977]

@RoyalBarrel .. maybe them started the fire

[aussiecupcake25]

i actually love this song, wish we still had music like this now :3

[gonnabaroberts]

Great job on the vid!!!

[WyzDat]

Perfect ( Apart from U2 psssst the spy plane shot down by the soviets ) but I think you got away with it LOL Awesome vid!!!

[Quasimodo1957]

Some of these photos aren't quite what the song refers to. Now Lin.....I've been following you for years since you first did this. Why the changes? Copyrights?

[GingerFilmz]

YOU DIDN'T USE A PICTURE OF THE REAL BEATLES WTF WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU



[WyzDat]

@GingerFilmz LMAO!!!

[alexisaminah]

this is real music... lol.... somebody like one of these rappers should make a political song like this.

[BEELZEBUB13579]

I love the U2 put in. Someone needs a history update. Like comment below and my 20 year old knows what the U2 project was. but otherwise I liked the pic of Marilyn!

[PawnBACM]

Religion is the fire

Numbers 31

17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

[jpakd1]

the reference to U2 is the spy plane not the band

[bulipi12]

All of those who dislike this video you are mother fuvking communists

[FightinRebel14]

Thumbs up if we need a new version of this song!

[happyemo112]

i watched this in class today :)

[CHRISSY7158]

we doing this song at school

[rjlee1000]

JFK, Blown away..

lol..

[regantnz]

I like how the Psycho thme is slipped in then

[milesistheowl]

95 people started the fire

[AxEGamingClan]

Come visit our chanel got some good quick scullion

[AxEGamingClan]

Ok im not gonba lie I started the fire

[SpadaccinoLuciano]

@AxEGamingClan I'm not "gonba" lie either, you're not funny.

[AxEGamingClan]

@SpadaccinoLuciano hey thats not AxE bro someone has hacked our channel! do you have any idea what to do?

[lovestotweek]

thumbs up if you didnt start the fire



[rogerrrubin]

Ah, the mystery is in the history. Great song and great images. We are lucky you posted this

[annalisazamora]

RYAN STARTED THE FIRE!!!!

[Lilacgirl81]

I like this video!!

[Awesomepossum835]

Toilet paper

[canidae98]

always a great song and it's very appropriate to today's Occupy Wall Street Movement. Wall street has started the fire? The younger generation will start their own to bring accountability to today's economic mess.

[abbey2t3]

my social studies teacher showed out class this and we r in 7th grade hahah i loved it good job by the way

[iWinnin]

Alan Harper from Two & A Half Men made me come here

[spigotman]

Where the hell is berea ohio?

[spigotman]

Hey Sam what editing software did you use.

[spigotman]

hey Broda email me bitch!

[SomePossibleName]

U2 in the lyrics is referring to U2 spyplanes, not the band.

[fightlol4]

@SomePossibleName lol i love when people think its the band

[Juliaflo]

@SomePossibleName Also, South Pacific should have featured Mary Martin, and The King and I should have featured Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence.

[jilliegirl1000]

Kennedy and The Beatles. That is all I have to say.

[Rillaway]

Notice the subliminal messages in this video.