Songs (IPL)

[Fox]

A personal fave of mine, this song reads like a history lesson from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. Still great to listen to after all this time. It didn't help that my cousins dragged me to a local videoke place in Ilocos during Holy Week and forced me to sing this one.

Anyways...


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


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


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


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?


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, 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 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.....