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• 05 Dec 14
  

  Sarah Harden

  Song and video about the song's contents

  U.S.history

• 08 Apr 14
  

  Rion Starkey
  • 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
     
     Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
     Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
     
     Roy 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 
     
     CHORUS
     
     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 go
  • 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
     
     Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
     Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
     
     Roy 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 
     
     CHORUS
     
     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 go
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  Colin McComas
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• 12 Apr 13
  

  Tekkie teacher

  Lyrics with links to explanations of the significance of the people and events that make up the song

  social studies history music

• 24 Aug 12
  

  Dante Bartee
• 23 Aug 12
  

  Sue Wimer

  HF

• 29 May 12
  

  Di Ruffles

  history

• 01 May 12
  

  Jessica Wray

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• 30 Mar 12
  

  Heath Fontes

  We didn't Start the Fire Explanation 3

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  Scott Depooter

  we didn't start the fire

• 26 Feb 12
  

  Allyson Bartley

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• 03 Nov 11
  

  Katie Douglas

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• 26 Jul 11
  

  Vicky Graf

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• 20 Jun 11
  

  Patty Tuttle

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• 06 Jun 11
  

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• 27 May 11
  

  Tara Boldthen

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• 09 May 11
  

  Kristen Bandy

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• 13 Apr 11
  

  history

• 15 Mar 11
  

  teresa mitchell

  "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
  
  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
  
  Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
  Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
  
  Roy 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
  
  CHORUS
  
  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 go
  
  U2, 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, 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 shore, China's under martial law
  Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore
  
  CHORUS
  
  We didn't start the fire
  But wh

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• 11 Jan 11
  

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• 19 Dec 10
  

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• 29 Oct 10
  

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• 28 Oct 10
  

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• 13 Oct 10
  

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• 05 Oct 10
  

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• 28 Aug 10
  

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  Jamie Gravell

  Links to all the information regarding the lyrics of We Didn't Start the Fire

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• 17 Aug 10
  

  Lauren Williams

  Explains "we didnt start the fire" with links

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• 08 Aug 10
  

  John Glaser
• 20 Jul 10
  

  William Brown

  We Didn't Start the Fire Billy Joel

• 03 May 10
  

  Tim Unger
• 04 Mar 10
  

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  Lyrics with links to explanations, two accompanying videos

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• 02 Mar 10
  

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• 09 Dec 09
  

  Suzanne Williams
• 12 Oct 09
  

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• 08 Jul 09
  

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• 06 Jun 09
  

  Ivan Balashov

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• 18 May 09
  

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• 30 Apr 09
  

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• 24 Apr 09
  

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• 27 Mar 09
  

  Courtney Krajkovich

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• 10 Dec 08
  
• 08 Dec 08
  

  vroten2 roten

  hotlinks to all the "events/people" in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."

• 22 Sep 08
  

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• 07 Sep 08
  

  Marci Delimont

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• 04 Sep 08
  

  Krystal Bulthuis

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  Lori Menger
• 02 Sep 08
  

  Brian Longbotham

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• 18 Aug 08
  

  Frida Lee

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• 19 Jul 08
  

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• 18 Jul 08
  

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• 17 Jul 08
  

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• 06 Jul 08
  

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• 14 Jun 08
  

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• 09 May 08
  

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• 06 May 08
  

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• 26 Mar 08
  

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• 22 Mar 08
  

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• 05 Mar 08
  

  Donna Esposito

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• 23 Jan 08
  

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• 04 Jan 08
  

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• 05 Dec 07
  

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• 28 Oct 07
  

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• 26 Sep 07
  

  Craig Nansen

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• 12 Sep 07
  

  BRMS Librarian

  lesson and links on the history of all the people and events listed in the song's lyrics. Song by Billy Joel.

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• 06 Sep 07
  

  A brilliantly done video and hyperlinked history lesson based on the Billy Joel song We Didn't Start The FIre.

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• 28 Aug 07
  

  Clif Mims

  Originally released on the STORM FRONT album, "We Didn't Start the Fire" is an excellent education tool for teachers and students! Watch this video by Scott Allsop. Below are the song's lyrics. Click on the links within the lyrics for info on the major e

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• 07 Jun 07
  

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• 01 May 07
  

  Jennifer Barnett

  great site for researching this song

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• 23 Jul 06
  

  Marcel de Ruiter

  all words explained plus some nice links

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• 08 Jul 06
  

  Joji Jacob

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• 17 Dec 05
  

  Brent Fiore

  Hyperlinked version of the Billy Joel song

  Music

  • Originally released on the STORM FRONT album, "We Didn't Start the Fire" is an excellent education tool for teachers and students! Below are the song's lyrics. Click on the links within the lyrics for info on the major events of the 20th century!

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