Billy Joel: We Didn't Start the Fire

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[LowCountryJoe]

I searched to see if anyone else had posted this link by searching for "Billy Joel" and "We didn't...". The searches turned up nothing, so my appologies if this has already been floated in one of the FR forums.

Enjoy!

[Tijeras_Slim]

WTF?

[Cyber Liberty]

This should be posted in "Breaking News".

[md2576]

Id say this is abuse of web space!

[md2576]

This shoul stay up a whole 2 minutes

[MotleyGirl70]

[Revolting cat!]

Yes you did!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

What no mention of his engagement to the 26 year-old hottie?

[JennysCool]

Holy Aunt Jemima! What a hare-raising photo!

[reagan_fanatic]

Maybe he's looking for his old man's Trojans and Old Spice aftershave...

[BenLurkin]

We Didn’t Start The Fire
Storm Front Released: 1989


Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny 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
Maciano, 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, Dancron
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
Starkwether, 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, Eichman, 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
J.F.K. 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 shores, 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
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

[ecurbh]

ping

[HairOfTheDog]

That's pretty well done!

Good choices of pics, and I love the running commentary.

Good song!

[LowCountryJoe]

Based on the first responses, I was just starting to wonder if I should start busting into a song parody, "What's the matter with the post I've posted..."

[HairOfTheDog]

I see what you mean!

ecurbh and I enjoyed it very much here!

[LowCountryJoe]

Have you checked out Boortz' website today in the Neal's Nuze section? Highlighted in yellow near the bottom of the page with the notice, "Click here. Just do it

Doesn't it seem like these types of audio/video clips emerge all at the same time?

[Johnny Gage]

[L.N. Smithee]

Thanks for posting the lyrics.

There is one tiny error, however: "Starkwether, Homicide" should be "Starkweather homicide." In 1957, Charles Starkweather went on a killing spree accompanied by his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, who either slaughtered her family himself or with her help (including Fugate's 2-year-old sister that was strangled). Eventually, they ended up being credited with the killings of eleven people. When the two of them were finally captured as Starkweather was struggling for a gun with a man he attempted to kill, the angel-faced Fugate insisted that she was an unwilling participant. Nonetheless, she was sentenced to life in prison (paroled 1977), while Starkweather was convicted of multiple homicide and executed in 1959.

In a performance of the song to open the Grammy Awards at which the song was nominated, Billy Joel, a New Yorker, appeared to flip the bird when he sang the lyric "California baseball." Appeared to me he's still a bit sore about the Giants and Dodgers moving west.

[MattAMiller]

I liked it. I especially liked the way North and South Korea were represented.

[Humbug]

geez, i just realized that when i heard this song as a kid i had thought the following line went:

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, greatest politician since
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

instead of the actual lyrics...

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

<|: ) <-puts on my dunce cap