Intro (piano)
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Verse
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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
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South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
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Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
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North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
INTRO RIFF
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Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
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Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye
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Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
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Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
CHORUS (PLAY THE INTRO)
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
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Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
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Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
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Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
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Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock
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Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
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Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
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Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
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Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez
CHORUS
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Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, Mafia
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Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
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U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
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Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
CHORUS
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Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
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Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
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Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
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Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
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JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
CHORUS
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Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
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Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
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Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
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Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
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Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
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Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
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Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
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Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
CHORUS
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