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This song has been reviewed 22 times. Overall score for this song, 9.8.
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Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire Lyrics

Song details
TitleWe Didn't Start The Fire
ArtistBilly Joel
AlbumGreatest Hits Volume III (1997) , Track 7 ,
Storm Front (1989) , Track 2 ,
2000 Millennium Concert (2000) , Track 3 Disc 2,
The Essential Billy Joel (2001) , Track 10 Disc 2,
Movin' Out (2002) , Track 10
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Song lyrics
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 

Rosenberg’s, 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, 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, Synghman 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 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 
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 

Beggin, 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 shore, China's under martial law 
Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore 

We didn't start the fire, 
It was always burnin', 
Since the world's been turnin' 
We didn't start the fire, 
But when we are gone 
Will it 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...
lyrics corrected on 10-03-2007




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05-08-2004 04:49CDNRoycer is offline CDNRoycer 

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yeah awsome song
04-09-2004 04:31itsme12 is offline itsme12 

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awesome song. and the good thing is that they played it in middle school and high school during class. awesome song!!!!


gotta have that beer
12-09-2004 13:44DaRkEr_DeVi is offline DaRkEr_DeVi 

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hey man cheers to this song
iss the best thnx to this song i got 98 in history!!this is one of the coolest songs!!!! all hail the song. lol!!!!
13-09-2004 02:18ThePQ4 is offline ThePQ4 

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haha. How funny is that... We're continuing the lyrics in my History class (World Since '45) and I got '01 -which sucked, but hey, whatever. I wanted '98 soooo bad... '98 was like the best year ever... Besides '99.

Anyway, I constantly get this song stuck in my head. It's my fave Billy Joel song ever.
21-11-2004 00:37hottie407 is offline hottie407 

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My mom and me listen to this alot so I love it. go billy joel
31-12-2004 23:36Athena77 is offline Athena77 

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It's amazing how much history he fits in this song. i love it so much! And it always reminds me of my Uncle because i was in his car when i first heard it!
14-01-2005 21:35Bex_4191 is offline Bex_4191 

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this song is soo gd! lol we listened 2 it in history on monday! it was soo gd the first time id evr heard it ..... bt now i think its sooo cool!!
31-03-2005 16:25punklover is offline punklover 

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i love this song, its so fun to sing, and everyone in my social studies class is obsessed w/ it.....so kewl!!
11-04-2005 21:57Lisa_at_home is offline Lisa_at_home 

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we had to listen to this in social studies and its been in my head ever since.. haha.
15-04-2005 23:34mythicldragon13 is offline mythicldragon13 

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this song rocks!!! we had to do part of it for a chorus thing and i decided to learn all the words!!!! its so fun to sing!!
02-05-2005 01:13girlybird2006 is offline girlybird2006 

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I think this song is just the greatest and it is fun to sing. I think it was a brillant way to compose a song
03-07-2005 17:17Lavevder is offline Lavevder 

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My english class luved it. we were doing poetry and ms. ensminger played it for us. it was the first time i ever listened to it. we listend to it atleast five times, and the entire class was singing it . it was so cool. that was totally awesome. all hail bj
05-08-2005 02:57redhott42 is offline redhott42 

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Billy Joel is my alltime favorite singer.... and this is one of my favorite songs... my dance team did our competition dance to it a few years ago and ever since i've been in love with it!!!
09-10-2005 19:53beachbum030x is offline beachbum030x 

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i love this song. its a classic.
but they never played it in my history class
21-10-2005 18:57DyingAtheist is offline DyingAtheist 

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Tried to sing along but its hard!!!

24-11-2005 13:32fruit7 is offline fruit7 

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this song is AWESOME!!!!! he has a very good point about the way the world was and he tried to get people to listen to him!! its a song about corruption in every single country but this song ROCKS!!!!!! the video is really cool!!! its difficult to sing along with it!!
04-02-2006 17:53Loic8 is offline Loic8 

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I simply love this song! It is a very special one! It has a meaning,it has a feeling and the music is GREAT!!!
15-03-2006 01:01mfgm is offline mfgm 

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This song is totally awsome!
Last year I saw a fuuny music video of this song in my social studdies class, and I love this song ever since. It's like just great! :cheery:
12-05-2006 04:07rocchio is offline rocchio 

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i will memorize this amazing song....one day
25-07-2006 14:36xkatsmeow3 is offline xkatsmeow3 

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Probably my personal favorite song. I love Billy Joel's musicccc.
17-09-2006 04:29musicdlp111405 is offline musicdlp111405 

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AHHHHHH!!! ok ppl if you look up the piano man lyrics you will se i leave long messages lol especially when im listening to billy joel and i jut had starbucks so yeah be ready to read lol^^ I love this song too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is awesome just like all his songs!!! it reminds me of starbucks lol i was kind of singing it while waiting in line lol that was fun !!!! anyway,i made up this awesome dance for this song (yes, i sing and dance in public!!) but i forget it anyway yea thats about all i have to say ... wait one more thing ... MOO !!!!!!!! ok sorry i have to do the cow head in each of my post ^^ its a Nap thing (nap is my nickname so if you ever talk to me call me nap but i dont think ppl want to talk to me because im such a loser!!!!!!) lol anyway yeah Love this song!!!!!
14-04-2007 00:21dancinmachine08 is offline dancinmachine08 

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this is such an awesome song.
hahaha did a project on it in middle school
i love billy joel so much
17-05-2007 01:25Ryanzway is offline Ryanzway 

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I like listening to this tune and then google'ing the events he talks about. This song should be played in every history class
22-07-2007 13:17Private_Secret is offline Private_Secret 

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I love this song, it's awesome. It's very fun to sing along with.


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