"We Didn't Start the Fire" Lyrics & Links
Fan Video of We Didn't Start the Fire
"We Didn't Start The Fire"
by
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
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
Josef Stalin,
Malenkov,
Nasser and
Prokofiev
Rockefeller,
Campanella, Communist
Bloc
Roy Cohn,
Juan Peron, Toscanini,
dacron
Dien Bien
Phu and "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
CHORUS
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
U2,
Syngman Rhee,
payola and
Kennedy
Chubby Checker,
"Psycho",
Belgians in the Congo
CHORUS
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
Birth control,
Ho Chi Minh,
Richard Nixon, back
again
Moonshot,
Woodstock,
Watergate,
punk rock
Begin,
Reagan,
Palestine,
terror on the
airline
Ayatollolah'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...
(Adapted from
http://www.teacheroz.com/fire.htm)
"We Didn't Start the Fire" (Facts) History Summary from 1949-1989 : http://www.school-for-champions.com/history/start_fire_facts.htm
Billy
Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" - About The Song (from the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2700488
The links below are courtesy of http://www.patkeefe.com/joel/joelwebquest.html
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American Memories Library of Congress collection of primary resources and archival items |
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National Archives: The Digital Classroom click on "Primary sources and Activities" |
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The History Net- another source of primary sources |
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Issues for the Millenium- Houston Chronicle- Links about Race, Energy, Computers, Climate |
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Historian's Database: United States- Oraganized by topics AND Decade |
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History Timelines... The History Beat- Scroll Down to find various timelines |
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Webcorp Mulitmedia Archive- Historical Videos and sounds (look for .wav or .mpeg files) |
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Home
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World History Compass- United States Index |
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Hulton Archive Photos- Collection of 40 Million images; Need to login with created name and password |
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"We Didn't Start the Fire"- The History Behind Billy Joel's Song |
Back To The Past- Essay on 1950's automobiles |
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"We Didn't Start the Fire"-Another History Behind Billy Joel's Song |
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International Boxing Hall of Fame- Links about famous boxers |
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Century of Social Change-Lists significant social changes that have occurred over the last century |
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20th Century in words and pictures-by the Associated Press- Has some video clips |
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The Sports Century- Houston Chronicle |
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Updated October 16, 2006 by R. Hennessey & T. Burmeister