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toxicgirl Oct 15, 2003

I remember when "We didn't start the fire" came out. I made it my mission to know all the words. That song was so cool when I was in elementary school.

exitstageleft Oct 16, 2003

it's still cool! and i still don't know all the words!

thatdarngirl thatdarngirlOG 2002

Me either! I can get a few words in that long stream of different things part.

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exitstageleftOG 2003

can someone post the lyrics here? i can't find them

tinser tinserOG 2002

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

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy hn, 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, Krushchev
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, Charlse 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, 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, Woodsto/ck/, 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 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...

* Its cool because its all historical...my brother knows every word and can sing it along with billy

T
toxicgirlOG 2003

SUGAR RAY???? That's gotta be some famous person. No way it's the group. Does anyone have info on this?

forrestina forrestinaOG 2002

wasn't he a boxer. well that's why they named their band sugar ray...

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toxicgirlOG 2003

AHHH...that must be it.

fivezero fivezeroOG 2003

Sugar Ray Leonard was a VERY famous boxer. thats where the band name comes from. Gab! you learned two things relating to boxing today! what the saying "in your corner" means and who sugar ray leonard is! i'm sorry i made you watch that mexican boxing match that one time tho.

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toxicgirlOG 2003

It's ok, I found my way to your computer and logged on to eZabel. Boxing ain't my thang.

thatdarngirl thatdarngirlOG 2002

those lyrics are awesome! i love it

J
jollycandymanOG 2001

All I can sing along to when te song is going is JFK, blown away! aahhhh, so morbid and fun to sing

tinser tinserOG 2002 funny

haha, i remember hearing those lyrics when i was younger and asking my dad, "they blew the airport up?"

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exitstageleftOG 2003

yay! thanx tinser!

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