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
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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 BlocRoy 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
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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 goU2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
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Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land" Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion "Lawrence of Arabia", British BeatlemaniaOle Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
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Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, back againMoonshot, 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
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We didn't start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
If you wish to know what any of the events mean then go to this web site right here http://www.teacheroz.com/fire.htm or if you feel even the least bit qualified just click on the item in question and it will take you there. Ok I guess thats it.....oh wait 2 days until the new names unvailed.
In referance to my recent name screw up all I can say is that im sorry for the terrrible mess up and I will promise that it will never happen agian.
--Neko
4 Comments:
I'm such a nerd, I have actually heard of that song...we listened to it in AP US History. It's now on my playlist.
I know that song - it's so awesome!
Josh, you seem to have a problem with punctuation.
Ok ladies and Gents.....
I proudly announce the unveiling of my newly renovated Blog. I ask that you all come by and perhaps even leave a word or two....
Mwahaha!!! I so happy!!! hehe...
anywho, yes, i like that song...and yes....Josh....you do have a problem with punctuation...haha....
Much Love,
~Sally~
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