歌：Billy Joel

作詞：JOEL BILLY

作曲：JOEL BILLY

発売：2009-05-08 09:29:26

'49 Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray,
"South Pacific," Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

'50 Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television,
North Korea, South Korea, Marlyn Monroe

'51 Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunijom,
Brando, "The King And I" and "The Catcher In The Rye"

'52 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

'53 Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev,
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc.

'54 Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron,
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around The Clock"

'55 Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team,
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley,
Disneyland

'56 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

'57 Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac,
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge On The Rive Kwai"

'58 Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball,
Starkwether homicide, children of thalidomide

'59 Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur," Space Monkey, Mafia,
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

'60 U-2, 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

'61 Hemingway, Eichman, "Stranger in a Strange Land,"
Dylan, Berlin, Bayof Pigs invasion

'62 "Lawrence of Arabia," British Beatlemania,
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

'63 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

'64-'89
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again,
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punk Rock,
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline,
Anatollah's in lran, Russians in Afghanistan

"wheel of Fortune," Sally Ride, Heavy Metal, Suicide,
Foreign debts, Homeless vets, AIDS,Crack, Bernie Goetz,
Hypodermics on the chores, 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
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...