We Didnt Start The Fire
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I don’t think many of the folks here would have heard this one. This is my favorite song from Billy Joel. It is not your typical song which is why I like it. A Grammy Award Winner.. Here goes:
LYRICS :
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
Though we did ignight 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 Falls, 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
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Though we did ignight it
But we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball,
Starkwether, 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
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Though we did ignight it
But we tried to fight it
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
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Though we did igight it
But we tried to fight it
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 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
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on…
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Though we did ignight it
But we tried to fight it
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Though we did ignight but
But we tried to fight it
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire…
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Outstanding sing my friend !!!!!!! I wonder how many here even know half the names and events in this song :) Unfortunately I’m old enough to have experienced them all !!!
Definitely a 5 cause it’s a really difficult song to sing… but you know what ?.. it didn’t felt you enjoyed singing it.
@Jake: Thanks for you feedback! Appreciate it :-)
@Sumit: Thanks for your rating Sumit. And trust me, I really enjoyed this song. In fact I was so excited to do this one. This is not an easy song to express feelings since there are very few pauses or breaks. Its more like a long news report :-)
Yup man !!... Its a really difficult song… but see in the video of this song billy joel still sitting cooly n tapping the table.. thats the kind of mood the singing should have i think. having said that i think you did a marvellous job controlling the breathing while still being in tune n timing.
too good george .. i guess u reached the pinnacle here with u’r singing !! does’nt look like u managed the chorus alone here .. if yes, then unbelievable.
@Abhishek – Thanks man. I did sing the chorus as well, but there are backup vocals as part of the karaoke track.
dude this is one tough song !! there are way too many words to be put in !!! excellent stuff dude ! great going….my rating 5/5..did Roshan do the backing vox? lol ..hehehe just kidding hehee
dude!!! this is one of my fav songs too..i agree with Sumit, it’s a little dry. but getting all those words out is hard. hehe..
I felt this like MASTI KI PAATHSHALA from Rang DE Basanti….to start with…:D
Nice Harmonies…and as usual boaring Excellent singing…:D
I felt u really enjoyed…singing this…:D
Nice go man…
Cool again. One of my favourites!
@Jake The WWW has definitely helped us in understanding the events mentioned in the song!