We Didn't Start The Fire (billy Joel)
Bill Joel composed a song "We didn't start the fire" 1989.
According to this website.
http://www.rareexception.com/Garden/Eighties/Fire.php
We Didn't Start The Fire
Billy Joel
Copyright 1996, Leilani Gnall
Edited and Published 1997, Paul O'Brien
http://uploader.wuerzburg.de/gym-fkg/schul...l/songtext.html
Bill Joel composed a song "We didn't start the fire" 1989.
According to this website.
http://www.rareexception.com/Garden/Eighties/Fire.php
We Didn't Start The Fire
Billy Joel
Copyright 1996, Leilani Gnall
Edited and Published 1997, Paul O'Brien
Billy Joel (reportedly) wrote this song because he overheard a child say that he felt sorry for \"older people\" like Billy Joel because no \"history\" happened in their lifetime, that NOW (or the time the song was written) was going to be the world's most historical time period. The comment got to Billy Joel so much that he sat down and wrote this to prove that his lifetime has been FULL of history.
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The World's always been kinda messed up, it was messed up before I was born, it was messed up during the time that I lived and it will probably be messed up after I'm gone.? That doesn't mean you don't try the best that you can and make this a better world.
http://uploader.wuerzburg.de/gym-fkg/schul...l/songtext.html
1949
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray,?
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe Dimaggio,
1950
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television,?
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe,
1951
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom,?
Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye
1952
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new Queen,?
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana good-bye .
CHORUS
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.
1953
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist bloc,
1954
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Tosconini, Dacron,?
Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock,
1955
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team,?
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland,
1956
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev,?
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?
Well we didn't light it,?
But we tried to fight it.
1957
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac,?
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai,
1958
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball,?
Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide,
1959
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia,?
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go,
1960
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?
Well we didn't light it,?
But we tried to fight it.
1961
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,?
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion,
1962
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania,?
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson,
1963
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?
Well we didn't light it,?
But we tried to fight it.
1964
to
1989
Birth control, Ho Chi-Minh, Richard Nixon back again,?
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate,Punk Rock,?
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, t**r on the airlines
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 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.....?
CHORUS
The thing with the song is that it is primary focused from 1949 to 1963. I propose that as a community, that includes potential time travelers, that we continue the song in the same manner it was written. For one we have a decade and a half between 1989 when the song was written and 2004 present day. Then we could also fill in the past if our preferences are of that persuasion. And we could fill in the future. With either sci-fi, tech related, or religious predictions, or if you are a time traveler with what you recall from your history.
Hopefully we can make it seem to fit seemlessly with the songs original structure.