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Trying to nail down the exact meaning of the lyrics to We Didn't Start the Fire(Long)
This is something that has always had me curious, I’ve liked this song for a long time, and honestly I know most of the names and the generalities surrounding the names and events mentioned, but I am curious for a little more detail. Of course I can always just go look it up on the net but that is a little less fun, and since people here know about these lyrics. If you can provide a brief description as to what each of these lyrics refer to and possibly even a date reference as well I would really appreciate it.
Again the point of this post is not to test your ability to search on google, but rather to just see what we all know here and what we can come up with. I figure with all the people here on this forum we can easily fill out the details behind all of these lyrics.
Of course if you don’t want to participate, well don’t its pretty simple. I will update this original post at least once or twice a day and insert the descriptions people have for the lyrics.
Note to admins, sorry if this is a little off topic, but this seemed the best place to post this.
Harry Truman
Doris day
Red China
Johnnie Ray
South Pacific
Walter Winchell
Joe Di Maggio.
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 good-bye.
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.
Joseph Stalin
Malenkov
Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller
Campanella
Communist Bloc.
Roy Cohn
Juan Peron
Toscanini
Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls
Rock Around The Clock.
Einstein
James Dean
Brooklyn's got a winning team
David Crockett
Peter Pan
Elvis Presley
Disneyland.
Bardot
Budapest
Alabama
Khrushchev
Princess grace
Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez.
We didn't start the fire
...
Little Rock
Pasternak
Mickey Mantle
Kerouac
Sputnik
Chou En-Lai
Bridge On The River Kwai.
Lebanon
Charles de Gaulle
California baseball
Starkweather
Hoicide
Children of Thalidomide.
Buddy Holly
Ben Hur
Space Monkey
Mafia
Hula Hoops
Castro
Edsel is a no-go.
U 2
Syngman Rhee
Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker
Psycho
Belgians in the Congo.
We didn't start the fire
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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
J.F.K. blown away
what else do I have to say?
We didn't start the fire
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Birth Control
Ho Chi Minh
Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot
Woodstock
Watergate
Punk Rock.
Begin
reagan
Palestine
Terror on the airline
Ayatollah'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 Roll
Cola Wars
I can't take it anymore.
We didn't start the fire
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we didn't start the fire
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Cheers
John
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