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

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 Perón,
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,
Grace Kelly, "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

U2, 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,
No, we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.

Hemingway, Eichmann,
"Stranger in a Strange Land",
Bob Dylan, Berlin,
Bay of Pigs Invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British
The Beatles, 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

Begin, 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 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, and 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!