We Didn't Start The Fire

We Didn't Start the Fire a tribute to Billy Joel Including pictures of events happening from 1949-1989
Music by Billy Joel
Enjoy, please rate and comment :-)
Lyrics:
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

CHORUS:
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

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, 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, Krushchev
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
No 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, Charlse 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
No 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
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodsto/ck/, 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

CHORUS:
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

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[chiodman47]

i just downloaded all the pics and then with an editing program i inserted the music and synchronized the photos with the song

[chiodman47]

dunno

[chiodman47]

o.. whoops

[chiodman47]

sorry there is no picture for Brooklyn's got a winning team . i dont know why i didn't come through.

[cheekeedevilll]

the cola wars was where pepsi and cola had 'wars' commercially with their products, doing fake taste testers to see which one was better and that type of thing, tryin to do the dirt on eachother, a bit like asda and M and S here in the UK

[manny2189]

this song has been stuck in my head for days!!!

[bonzo6482]

It should be sugar ray Robinson's pic not sugar ray Leonard...

[davenlsn]

One of the worst versions I've seen. Sorry, but the pictures for Dylan and Brando are way too recent. The picture for cola wars is Michael Jackson, which has nothing to do with cola wars. And the image of the "Homicide: Life on the Street" title? Sorry, but poor effort.

[EpicLouie]

Haha good song. That's alot to remember

[hrchjcadk]

nice

[clemsontige]

hardest.lyrics.to remember

[SlumberCloud]

very educational song, lol

[KollaBears2010]

awesome video and song!!!

[sfflyer123]

Great video!

[bassguitar1234567]

@Jordan1697 DUDE! thats so sad!!

[Jordan1697]

@bassguitar1234567 women had morning sickness so they took a tablet call thalidomide and that made the baby's sorta like no arms