We Didnt Start the Fire es una canción escrita e interpretada por Billy Joel, lanzada en 1989 en su álbum Storm Front. La canción enumera una corriente de eventos históricos desde 1949, el año de nacimiento de Joel, hasta 1989, el año en que se lanzó la canción. Joel creó la canción como respuesta a una conversación con Sean Lennon, quien expresó pesar sobre el mundo que estaba heredando. La letra refleja las principales noticias globales de la s ... Ver más [+] egunda mitad del siglo 20, culminando en el estribillo resignado sobre la inevitabilidad de la historia.
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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
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Rosenberg's, 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
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We didn't start the fire;
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It was always burning,
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Since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
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No we didn't light it,
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But we tried to fight it
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Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
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Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
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Roy Kahn, 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, Khrushchev
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Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
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We didn't start the fire;
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It was always burning,
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Since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
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No we didn't light it,
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But we tried to fight it
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Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
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Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
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Em
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
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D2
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Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
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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
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning,
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Since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
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No we didn't light it,
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But we tried to fight it
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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 Beatle mania
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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
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We didn't start the fire
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It was always burning,
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Since the world's been turning
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We didn't start the fire
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No we didn't light it,
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But we tried to fight it
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Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
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Moon shot, 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