paroles de chanson We Didn't Start the Fire (Live) - Billy Joel

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

Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh

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

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, and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella
Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, 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, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez

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, Zhou En-lai
Bridge on the River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle
California baseball
Stark weather 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

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 politicians sex
J.F.K. blown away
What else do I have to say?

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, 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 fight it anymore

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 gonna still burn on, and on and on, and on

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
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
We didn't start the fire, it was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire