49 harry truman, doris day, red china, johnnie ray
South pacific, walter winchell, joe dimaggio
50 joe mccarthy, richard nixon, studebaker, television
North korea, south korea, marilyn monroe
51 rosenbergs, h-bomb, sugar ray, panmunjom
Brando, "the king and i" and "the catcher in the rye"
52 eisenhower, vaccine, englands got a new queen
Marciano, liberace, santayana goodbye
Chorus
We didnt start the fire
It was always burning
Since the worlds been turning
We didnt start the fire
No we didnt light it
But we tried to fight it
53 joseph stalin, malenkov, nasser and prokofiev
Rockefeller, campanella, communist bloc
54 roy cohn, juan peron, toscanini, dacron
Dien bien phu falls, "rock around the clock"
55 einstein, james dean, brooklyns got a winning team
Davy crockett, peter pan, elvis presley, disneyland
56 bardot, budapest, alabama, krushchev
Princess grace, "peyton place", trouble in the suez
Chorus
57 little rock, pasternak, mickey mantle, kerouac
Sputnik, chou en-lai, "bridge on the river kwai"
58 lebanon, charles de gaulle, california baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
59 buddy holly, "ben hur", space monkey, mafia
Hula hoops, castro, edsel is a no-go
60 u-2, syngman rhee, payola and kennedy
Chubby checker, "psycho", belgians in the congo
Chorus
61 hemingway, eichmann, "stranger in a strange land"
Dylan, berlin, bay of pigs invasion
62 "lawrence of arabia", british beatlemania
Ole miss, john glenn, liston beats patterson
63 pope paul, malcolm x, british politician sex
Jfk, blown away, what else do I have to say
Chorus
64 - 89 birth control, ho chi minh, richard nixon back again
Moonshot, woodstock, watergate, punk rock
Begin, reagan, palestine, terror on the airline
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 shores, chinas under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I cant take it anymore
Chorus
We didnt start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
